Your Authentic Life: IT’S RAINING IN SYDNEY!!!
As our plane lifts off the ground, I reflect on the two weeks of tai chi training Ed and I have just completed in Wollongong, Australia, just south of Sydney. Amidst all of the anxiety and fear and fires and smoke, our group...
Personal Transformation: Why I Want to Experience My Connection with You
In my interview with Dr. Larry Dossey this week – which was published as a podcast titled “We Are All One” – he speaks of the deep connection between all of us as one of the most important things in our existence. He cites...
“We Are All One” – My Interview With Dr. Larry Dossey
I’m honored to bring you the thinking of New York Times best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey, on issues he has championed for nearly 40 years. Larry and I will be discussing a range of topics, such as the nature...
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Your Authentic Life: Nothing [Bad] Between Us
On a frigid winter day exactly 109 years ago, my father John Rempel Schmidt was born in a small farmhouse in a Plautdietsch (Low-German) Mennonite community in south central Kansas. I dedicate my very first podcast to my...
Your Authentic Life: Raising Our Voices for What We Believe
I’m launching a new podcast next week and I’m excited to share it with you! At the end of 2019, I wrote about the elderly in our society, whom we sadly treat as invisible and voiceless. Here’s the other side of this: I have been...
Your Authentic Life: Raising Our Shared Voices in 2020
At the end of 2019, I wrote about the elderly in our society, whom we sadly treat as invisible and voiceless in our society. But here’s the other side of this: I have been given a voice, and yet, too often I’ve failed...
Personal Transformation: Taking Stock of 2019
A year ago, I wrote this as I was looking back on and taking stock of 2018: Frankly, I don’t know how to make sense of what’s going on in our world. So I’m turning inward. It’s time for me to stop reading the news, time to stop focusing on what’s...
Your Authentic Life: Christmases Past and Present
I’ve been reflecting on changes since Christmases past. That's Ed and I in front of our tree in 2013 in the photo above. We did Christmas BIG. Only six years later: We’re still having fun. ...
Your Authentic Life: Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve, a perfect night to express affection for your family, to forgive those who failed you, and to forget past mistakes. ~ Unknown
Your Authentic Life:Feeling Invisible During the Holidays — Two Competing Solutions (with guest blogger Deb McAlister Holland)
This week, I’ve been writing about the elderly in our society, who often feel invisible, not seen or heard and lonely. It’s especially sad during the holiday season, when the grief of feeling alone and unseen naturally is more...