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Your Emotional Super Tool is Resilience
August 15, 2024 Let’s glance back over the past ten years for a brief moment. I could fill hundreds of journals with issues, circumstances, ‘problems’ and life shifts I’ve gone through. Blech! Readers don’t want to hear about my life, its challenges and how I …
Letting Go is the Key to Freedom
June 30, 2024 Every time I’m lucky enough to sell a piece from my carefully curated furniture collection I experience two things. First, I have deep pangs of resistance – an unfortunate trait I’ve had my entire life. We’re not talking hoarding, but I do …
Procrastination and Perfectionism Equals Stuck
Holy Cow! I never expected to uncover what I found on my way to researching the topic of perfectionism. It absolutely turned my morning upside down. I was all set to write up a tidy little summary of everything you might want to know about …
chairbump: get a dopamine bump from spectacular chairs
Nothing to do with a baby bump, my renewed passion and interest in chairs has given birth to the my new baby ‘ChairBump’. It boils down to the delightful little dopamine hit you get when you see an absolutely jaw dropping chair. I’ll admit it. …
Furniture Flipping is My Therapy AND Good for the Planet
This post title has been bouncing around in my head for a bit. Doesn’t everybody think of great titles for blog posts, articles, books, ebooks, online courses? According to all online marketing advice, a word to the wise is to NOT use a creative or …
The Crying Chair and Pushing Through Fear
If I could package my ideal customer up in the form of a kickass woman, this would be the one! It was in the middle of one of my Chair Up! Upholstery Bootcamps that she completely broke down crying. Wrestling through her chair, she was …
How To Model Resilience and Empowerment for Your Teen After Divorce or Loss
My dad died when I was 14. He was 48. My mom was 49. I was the youngest of 5 kids. I watched my mom (also the youngest of 5) discover herself and thrive beyond being a wife and mother. She grieved. Then, she made …
