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25 Life Lessons From My 365Project.Org Photo-A-Day Challenge

by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 5, 2015 | Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation, Photography

You know that feeling when something is tugging at your heart but you try to ignore it? An idea pops up that you’ve never had before–maybe you know what triggered it, maybe not–and you think, “Hmmm…that would be cool to do some day. Maybe...

Nailed It: How Creative Goal Setting, Accountability, and Your Support Made 2014 a Very Good Year

by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 31, 2014 | Fitness, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Motivation, Photography

It’s been a big year. I turned 50, sent my first kid to college, celebrated 20 years of marriage, drove a 30-foot RV through U.S. national parks, ran my first 10-mile race, and reached my 5-year cancer-free milestone. Even more gratifying than all of that was...

50 Uplifting Life Lessons Learned from Breast Cancer (pun intended)

by Martha Brettschneider | Jun 10, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation

Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid down my temples into my hair, with no way for me to wipe them away. Realizing...

15 Life Lessons Gleaned From a Forsythia Bud

by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 6, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation

First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post’s (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn’t size the photos correctly for the emailed version, which mucked the whole thing up....

A Few of My Favorite Things

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 12, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation

Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a new header with some of my garden photography. As I wrote back in January, my 2014...

Why the GE Mom Commercial Hurts Women

by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 23, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation

Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that’s been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It’s the one with the little girl narrating while magical graphics play in the...
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