by Laura Cabanillas | Jan 3, 2020
Reflect. It’s what many of us do when a new year begins. So what do you do at the start of a new decade? We have just been ushered into one with the dawning of 2020. Ten years worth of reflection seems daunting though – it takes the whole idea to an entirely different...
by Laura Cabanillas | Apr 26, 2019
One of the greatest gifts of being human is the ability to feel. To feel means we are fully alive and that is a gift itself. Grief is complex and cannot be put into a box or packaged neatly into a one-size-fits-all formula. Sorrow, love, heartache, hope,...
by Laura Cabanillas | Apr 1, 2018
Last year, while traveling in Greece with my husband for our wedding anniversary, we happened upon the little island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony. This tiny island is accessible only by boat, and while from 1903-1957, no one stepped foot on the island aside...
by Laura Cabanillas | Dec 31, 2017
With New Year resolution making mentality in the air, I find myself revisiting some reflections from a few years ago. Letting Go When All You Want To Do Is Hold On, was a post I penned in January, 2014; it received 2,000+ hits. While that may not be much to some of...
by Laura Cabanillas | Oct 14, 2016
Moving, along with marriage, divorce, death, major illness, and a handful of other situations, is considered by mental health experts to be among the top ten most stressful life events. Stress is relative though, and I think after you move three or four (or 17) times,...
by Laura Cabanillas | Oct 9, 2015
The Pacific Northwest offers some amazing hiking. This past summer, when the June gloom that Seattle is known for began to burn off, and the sun made its official initial summer-has-begun appearance right after the fourth of July, my husband and I began discussing...
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