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. This week, I want to talk about the fall. It's such a wonderful time of year. It's so colorful, cool and crisp. And it truly is a time of transition. This is the time of year that nature begins to move inward, storing its energy, dropping its foliage and conserving energy for the cooler months. This change, whether we're aware of it or not, it affects all of us.

Food, that's what I want to talk about. It is who we are. We are what we eat. We are our heritage of traditions and foods. And when we become friends with our body and accept ourselves, it can be a little helpful to look at how and what we eat. Are we rigid? Do we have a list of good and bad? Are we always on a diet?

I have been talking a lot about being friends with our body, tuning in to ourselves, loving ourselves. The truth is that this can be a full time job. And as we are holding on to our physical and emotional self all day, those around us may not be so aware of themselves, and the words and opinions that they share can hurt us.

This week, I want to continue our conversation about our chakras. We're hopefully understanding a little bit more about our energy and how we can help our health. When we are feeling stuck, understanding our chakra centers and how we can move that energy, move that energy around to feel better, well, that's very empowering.

This week I wanted to kind of do a recap. How's your summer been? How have you been keeping up with your self-care? How about our boundaries? You know, we're about to start that last slide into the last few months of the year, and for some reason we just feel like we got to fit it all in and we get crazy.

There's so much research on the benefits of laughing, and there is a hormone released when we laugh. And the Mayo Clinic talks a lot about laughter, improving our immune system by releasing neuropeptides that reduce our stress. Laughter also releases a natural painkiller.

This week I wish to talk about the word dog. I just want to talk about this amazing rescue pup that we brought into our family in March of this year. We'd been looking for a friend for Hoshi for quite a while. And so this new little girl - her name is Nori from her DNA that we did for her.

This week I was thinking about the word ‘grey’. It seems to be the color, the hair color that is. Maybe it's because of my age, but I see young and old with beautiful grey hair. It has become a color of youth and not a color of age.

This week I want to talk about packing for travel. I don't know about you, but you've probably gotten back into your life a little more quickly than I have. My health event in January gave me a slow start to getting back to “normal”. But here we are in the summer and planning our first trip in four years. It made me think about everyone traveling and what and how we decide what to bring with us.

For those that don’t know what our chakras are, they are our energy centers in our body and we have seven of them. Each chakra moves in a spinning motion that filters the energy of the environment around us and helps disperse it. There are events in our lives. Emotional. Traumatic that hit our chakras. And then our chakras will close.

This week, I want to talk about being friends with our body. Oh, maybe you're rolling your eyes. But you know what? I feel like at times we kind of separate. We're all in our heads and we separate, and we're at odds with our bodies. And I have talked about connecting the dots with how our food and our environment and our movement affect our body.

This week I thought I would read our children's book, The Squirrel Manifesto. Ric and I had a wonderful time working with Dave Zaborszky, creating this beautiful book, The Squirrel Manifesto. And it's our hope that children will learn a little bit about money after they read it. So here we go.

This week I want to talk about being hungry, but what else is going on? Food is life and we need it to function to be the best version of ourselves. So here’s my question. Why do we repress and ignore our hunger and our thirst? Our body is so wise. It is telling us what it needs and it needs sustenance. Now we can question: Do we need food?

This week I thought I would talk a little bit about our food on a busy day. You know what? It's that time of year when we're out and about. We have more time for our outside activities and we may not be thinking about or planning our food for the day. It's so important for our self-care to not get dehydrated and hungry when we're out for the day.

This week I thought I would talk about the word savor to fully notice and appreciate. The practice of savoring is about being aware of something and getting pleasure from it. In our hectic day, it's so hard to find time to do this, but we can savor in our micro moments, perhaps over a cup of tea or standing in the sun for a few moments.

This week I thought I would talk about our inner world, our inner images, our inner dialog. And at the end, I want to talk about how to create an inner smile. I've talked about shifting our perspective a little bit about life is happening for us. Our ups, our downs.

This week, since it's that time of year where maybe we've got some vacations, we're away from home and we're with different groups of people. I thought I'd talk about sharing our stories. I hope you've discovered how fun and easy it is to start and have a good, meaningful conversation with someone. Everyone has something to share. Everyone has a story to tell to facilitate connecting and sharing our stories.

This week, I want to talk about dreams. Do you dream? I love my dreams to the point where I started a dream journal. I do my best every morning to write down whatever I can remember when I get a very vivid dream on a specific person. To me, it's usually a signal that I need to connect with them.

This week, I want to talk about dreams. Do you dream? I love my dreams to the point where I started a dream journal. I do my best every morning to write down whatever I can remember when I get a very vivid dream on a specific person. To me, it's usually a signal that I need to connect with them.

This week, I want to talk about our tools for life. I want to talk about tapping. No, not tap dancing. Tapping. Stay tuned. I'm going to show you. There are so many more demands on us every day with technology and I it can be so easy to lose the essence of our self.

This week I want to talk about smile. A smile costs nothing yet It has amazing influence on those around us. It has a wonderful benefit to our state of mind. A smile costs less than electricity, but it gives much light.

Did you know that April is Stress Awareness Month? That is wonderful. NIH has devoted the month to focusing on stress. This is our disease of the 21st century. Life is getting faster and more demanding, and stress just feels like we're treading water to get through our day.

This week, let's go back and talk a little bit more about self-care. Why is it that maybe we don't put enough of it into our day? I was thinking if we broke it down into micro moments in our day, maybe we could find a little bit more time for self-care. So the micro moments are the moments in between, the moments in between a meeting or maybe a meal, or maybe you're driving somewhere.

This week I just want to share something I absolutely love. I want to share Wabi-sabi. No, not wasabi, the condiment we eat with our sushi. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese philosophy that acknowledges three simple beliefs. Nothing lasts. Nothing’s finished. And nothing is perfect. Thank you, sign me up!

This week, I want to talk about our view on life, realizing that a small shift in our thinking can bring great insight and maybe reduce some of our daily stress. Instead of seeing life happening to us and shifting to seeing our life as happening for us, this is when we can begin to embrace the moments as opportunities to grow.