Let Go of Your Ex: Avoid These 7 Excuses!

To successfully move on from a broken relationship, you need to separate emotionally, physically and psychologically.  The best way to do that is to cut off all contact with your ex so that you have time and space to heal.  Yet many people try to justify and rationalize their continued contact.  But these are just [...]

Duchess Digest: Ending Envy

Green has always been my favorite color. It’s the featured color of my birthstone (emerald), my favorite cocktail ring (peridot), my livelihood (cash!), my peace of mind (nature) and my favorite surprise gift (flowers). It’s a great way to act consciously (as in “go green” and save our planet!) and it is also the color [...]

Duchess Digest: Waking Up Wonder Woman

On a recent romp through late night television I happened to stumble across the movie Watchmen. I will admit right now I didn’t stick around long enough to know anything about the movie, but it did trigger a thought. In the few minutes of the scene I did watch, a superhero team of some Batman [...]

Mars Venus Q&A: “My Illness Tore Us Apart”

Dear John,
I am in the process of recovering from an eating disorder known as bulimia.  I have been hospitalized four times in the last four years.  The last time, I almost died.  Every time I fell apart, I promised my boyfriend that I would get better and each time I let him down.
Along with the [...]

Don’t Let Mr. Wrong Keep You from Finding Mr. Right

There’s a good chance if you’re a single women over the age of 21, you’ve had a few bad experiences with some not-so-nice Mr. Wrongs.
Needless to say, those past experiences have made you more than just a little gun-shy—which is why some totally innocuous remark from a potential Mr. Right brings back a flood of [...]

Duchess Digest: Tapped In

Let’s face it; no woman is an island. While every modern woman loves to be independent, confident and self-reliant, we all could use balancing our alone time with a community.
Communities come in many forms; spiritual groups, educational gatherings, family, friends, even people with whom we share common backgrounds, ethnicities or situations. No matter their form, [...]

Duchess Digest: A Four-Letter Word

I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately. Somewhere in the neighborhood of three-thousand miles of driving; give or take a few hundred miles. And while the road-trips can leave my bum sore and my eyes tired, it also produces some of my best thinking and ideas.
Recently, while stopped in gridlock traffic on the interstate [...]

Duchess Digest: Growth vs. Change

What it is about change that we seem to be so adverse to? Isn’t change the
whole reason for our existence today? Think about it. Change is the whole
basis of evolution and how life sustains itself. Those who can change,
adapt and be fluid are the ones who survive. Those that don’t are the ones
we study in [...]