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Love Is Like Fairy Dust

By Dr. Noelle Nelson · 2 months ago

You can sprinkle love anywhere! Anytime. Just like fairy dust. It’s not love as in “hugs and kisses,” as nice as those are, it’s love by a different description. Namely, “to delight in the presence ...

Life Is Meant For Joy

By Dr. Noelle Nelson · 4 months ago

Joy is our basic nature. It’s what everything else we do is aiming for. Yes, money is nice, but why? For the joy it brings us in the form of comfort and/or giving to others. ...

Let Purpose Get You Off the Hamster Wheel

By Dr. Noelle Nelson · 1 year ago

Some days it feels like life is one endless hamster wheel, where you go round and round and round in the same way day after day. You know the drill: chores-work-kids-chores-bed, rinse and repeat. Oh, ...

Self-Care: Lattes and Ice Cream. Really?

By Dr. Noelle Nelson · 1 year ago

We are a quick-fix species, we humans. We want ‘it’ – whatever ‘it’ is – NOW! The money, the lover, the job, the car, the child to behave, the partner to behave (oops!), the boss ...

My “Worry” Epiphany

By Dr. Noelle Nelson · 2 years ago

You would think that a garden-variety cold would hardly lead to an epiphany. That’s what happened. I ended up flat on my back, sneezing, coughing, not-sleeping, miserable, with a severe head cold and laryngitis. Lovely. ...