5 ways to ditch depression and start living out loud
July 19, 2009 – 12:16 pm | 2 Comments

The bridge between depression and “living out loud” is right there within you; it’s your invincible voice!   At The Self Development Place, you can put together your own unique mix of five different services …

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Your Invincible Voice

The No Lost Voices blog. The challenge: to deliver the message of No Lost Voices to 100 groups in 50 weeks, come rain, snow, sleet — or stagefright.

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Insights and stories to help you step into your invincible voice and make the tiny shifts that can trigger amazing transformations in your life and relationships.

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Tips, photos and inspiration to help you transform your space into a personal refuge that reflects who you are and who you are becoming

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Up-to-the-minute details on workshops, classes, and events at The Self Development Place.

your daughter's voice

Thoughts to help you raise your daughter to be an independent thinker with a natural exuberance for life and a voice that rings clear as a bell.

Three Minutes at a Steinway
November 18, 2007 – 7:01 pm | No Comment
Three Minutes at a Steinway

contemplating incipient sea change
Last New Year’s Eve, I found myself at the piano after a 20-year absence. As a direct result, I am now faced with the largely self-inflicted terror of playing a Bach …

Attracting Sea Change
July 31, 2007 – 12:43 am | No Comment
Attracting Sea Change

The message of Sea Change is simple – as important truths tend to be.
Each day, we’re pulled in a hundred different directions. The din of the demands coming from the outside makes it hard …

The Missing Piece
October 20, 2006 – 11:30 pm | No Comment
The Missing Piece

It started when my friend Cathy handed me a sack of paperback books-on-loan. Swapping books is a practice we’d established over time. Some were meant to be returned, others were to be passed along to …

Seeking Your Passion?
October 19, 2006 – 11:35 pm | No Comment
Seeking Your Passion?

Seeking Your Passion? Inquire Within…
We hear a lot these days about “passion.” Everywhere we look, it seems like someone is telling us to “find our passion,” to “follow our passion,” to “live passionately.” In …

Seeking to Nurture Others?
July 7, 2005 – 2:23 pm | No Comment
Seeking to Nurture Others?

Seeking to Nurture Others? First Value Your Self
“I’m not worried about what I want; I just want to make sure that everyone else has what they want.”
It’s an unspoken chorus of women who have …