Duchess Digest: How to Have it All

Having it all is an idea, a dream and a practice you’ve heard about for a long time. This ever elusive “all” is the holy grail of a life well lived. I should know; I’m writing a book about it!
But what does having it all really mean? I heard a very interesting idea on this [...]

Learn How to Be Happy with Yourself

My grandmother was an amazing piano player. In fact she was so good that, despite only have a few university credits, she taught piano at the college level. One of the courses she instructed was entitled “How to play the piano DESPITE years of practice.”
Grandma used to talk about the bad habits people had picked [...]

8 Ways to Build Self Esteem

Coaches often use a Life Balance Wheel to help clients determine whether their lives are in balance. Sometimes I suggest to a client to draw a circle, divide it into eighths and use the labels shown below for each section of the pie. Then I’ll suggest they put a mark in each section from 1 [...]

Duchess Digest: Serendipity

As I sit under the cloudy gray, blue skies of England’s beautiful Cotswold region I can not help but wonder about the idea of serendipity; the occurrence of fortunate discoveries by accident. It’s a pretty powerful thing. How many times have you stumbled across an amazing restaurant that soon became your favorite simply because you [...]

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, [...]

Brooke Shields & Her Healthy Upgrade Team

If you’ve been dying to steal Brooke Shields’ beauty secrets since the early ’80s, take heart. Colgate Total has enlisted a Healthy Upgrade Team to help Brooke and women like her (cough – you and me) look and feel good. Free, easy-to-implement tips from the “Lipstick Jungle” star’s trio of wellness & beauty experts are [...]

From the Mundane to the Catastrophic, I Got It Here

Now and then, I give second thoughts to my chosen career of writing about women’s health. It may not be the wisest spot on the work wheel when you come from a family of hypochondriacs. It’s our own special genetic neurosis.
Working on February’s articles (during American Heart Month,) I found myself more focused on things [...]