Tag Archives: mindfulness
FMM 5 16 2025 ‘Don’t Stress Me!’
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia. I migrated to the US in 1978, fresh out of nursing school in the UK (land of my birth), after growing up in Jamaica (land of my rebirth). My boyfriend had moved to Miami, and that was enough […]
FMM 1 3 2025 Walk Good!
FMM 1 3 2025 Walk Good “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” ~ Cesare Pavese. I have often said (or thought, or written) that what helps make the Holiday season special, that magic time at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, is the rituals. Doing the […]
FMM 11 22 2024 No Time for Tears
“They don’t want to see us uniteAll they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. More than 25 years ago, a very close friend of my husband was murdered. In cold blood, in his driveway one morning. He (the friend) had been involved with some unsavory characters and […]
FMM 7 26 2024 Awaking to Presence
“An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.” ~ Bernie Siegel. When my father was in his mid-fifties, he had a heart attack. It sneaked up on him, aches and pains in his left shoulder, that he ascribed to driving up and down the winding country […]
FMM 6 7 2024 Jamaica Medz
“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh. I have always been a morning person, early to rise (also, early to bed!). It has never been a challenge for me to be up with the roosters, or even (as they say in Jamaica) before ‘cock put on ‘im […]
FMM 4 26 24 Style or Spoil?
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” ~ Erma Bombeck. Recently I answered a question posed about uniforms (for or against). I shared that since I had worn uniforms for most of my childhood, and then for over thirty years of my adult life as […]
FMM 9 1 2023 Rock Steady, Baby!
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” ~ Hans Selye. I don’t know when I became a worrier. It would be interesting to know if it was in my nature, or if it was nurtured. I often laughed at a story I told of my mother, who, one night […]
FMM 7 14 2023 Gossamer Threads
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.” ~ Khaled Hosseini. I have always believed in the mind-body connection, understanding that the whole body is connected, in ways we can only begin to imagine. I often recommend practices that help to still the ‘monkey mind’, one that jumps from thought to thought, […]
FMM 4 14 2023 What If?
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus. I used to be an excellent worrier. I somehow felt that if I imagined all of the possible bad outcomes that could happen, then they wouldn’t happen. It would be arrogance on my part (I […]
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