Happy Mother’s Day Mama!

We love you mama… Stephanie & Michael 🌻💛🌻💛

The Dilemma Of Helping: Can You Make Someone Change?

I appreciate the quiet humility in this interpretation of “Live And Let Live”. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the horse drink. Even if the horse is dying, you can’t force her to drink. If you take the horse to the vet and restore her to health, she will survive…

Inspired Thought For Today – Visualize Succeeding

I try to align my actions to the values I want to live by. This alignment helps me become the confident woman I want to be. I imagine myself succeeding as a confident woman. I do this in situations that usually create fear. As a result, I feel grounded and confident to handle such scenarios…

Experience Calm With Acupuncture Ear Seeds

I had the most amazing acupuncture appointment yesterday. I lost count of the number of needles Erin placed from my head down to my feet! After the session, she placed a set of Acupuncture Ear Seeds in the Shen Men area of my outer ear to help with stress and anxiety. As well, Erin gave…

Centenarian Portrait: Celebrating Life At 56

Blogger justrojie posted centurian, using AI to generate a photo of herself at 100 years old. Inspired by this, along with today being my 56th birthday, I wanted to see an AI generated Centenarian Joyful Stephanie. The picture is quite accurate, as there is a resemblance to my beautiful mother. Desiderata & Let Them Seeing…

Dog Is God In Reverse

Vinnie and Pebbles are rescues from Texas. These beautiful dogs are filled with so much love and personality. Sometimes my breath catches in my throat when I recall they would have been put to death if they were not rescued from kill shelters, put up for adoption, adopted by Michael and I, traveled crated in…

“And We Have Ceased Fighting Anything Or Anyone…”

As I approach my 56th birthday, I took Socrates’ sage advice to examine my life, my journey since that monumental day of turning a half century old – 50. I created a visual, linear reflection with photos, recalling where I’ve been up to now. Embracing 50: Wanting Freedom From Emotional & Cognitive Suffering Embracing 50:…

Turning 52 During The COVID Pandemic: A Personal Journey

As my 56th birthday approaches, I’ve decided to repost blogs I published about past birthdays. I wrote Turning 52 During A Pandemic: A Personal Journey on April 28th, 2021 while we were living in Upper Vaughn, Nova Scotia. The original blog only focused on my 52nd birthday day. I added a backstory to this blog, to include and reflect…