This is an article I first posted to my Myspace blog on Mother’s Day 2006.  Since that time and to this day, I still continue to receive heartfelt thanks from those who read it and are receiving authentic emotional healing from it. Our Mother is a vital, critical part of our emotional make up. How she treated us, how she interacted with us.  How she loved us and more importantly how loved or unloved we [...]

In an overwhelming world full of stress and information overload, what do we do to decompress in a healthy way? We all feel it. We all have it.  We know how dangerous it is for our health, and quality of life to be stuck in negative emotions like anger, bitterness, despair, fear, etc.  It’s not like we don’t know hanging out too long in these states affects our lives negatively, but it can be a [...]

Having a pet makes you an Ultimate Authentic SuperStar! This fact should be no surprise to most people. Here are just a few of countless reasons why, if you can, get yourself a pet to love! Animals add a richness and feeling of being connected in our lives. That love and connection is extremely important for emotional healing. They also help us to communicate.  Let me explain.  If you can communicate with another being that [...]

This post is about something extremely personal and life-changing for me.  It’s about a subject I knew nothing about. Even though it’s perfectly natural.  No one ever told me. I had no idea what could potentially come my way…until it hit me like a ton of bricks.  Until my entire world turned upside down two years ago, and I’ve been trying to stabilize it ever since. But not before it wreaked such havoc in my [...]

Music is a timeless, versatile classic: The Ultimate StarMaker of StarMakers. There are a multitude of ways you can feel like and become a Star through music.  Here are just a few: Most everyone can relate to music.  From ancient times until today, music is its own universal language. It has the power to change your mood, and create cathartic emotional healing. There are many cases of using music therapy. Music stirs feelings in the [...]

Now we have reached a subject near and dear to my heart, one of my favorite posts Prayer has been proven over our known history as being a powerful and deeply personal StarMaker. For the purposes of this post, I will loosely define prayer as communion with a loving source higher than ourselves, with whom and to whom we surrender our deepest fears, concerns, as well as joys. Mankind has always needed to feel like [...]

One of my all time favorite topics! Gardening and growing your own food.  Why does it make you an authentic SuperStar in your own life? There is a certain satisfaction and priceless amount of internal confidence that you build by being able to grow your own food. It puts you closer in touch with the earth, and how it provides so abundantly every time we plant the seeds and tend to it. This connection is [...]

This was also an immensely popular blog I posted on Myspace in 2006.  People have told me they use the last part as a type of meditation, and it always leaves them feeling complete and whole.  From that place of wholeness, you can choose to visualize differently, or just use the feeling to…well, feel good for a while! However you decide, it is my pleasure to share this article with you today… Many people have [...]

An unusual, unlikely, yet extremely powerful StarMaker is singing karaoke. Who knew? Actually, quite a few professionals know of the power of karaoke.  Many speech therapists have found that singing and music therapy, specifically karaoke therapy, can actually heal patients with speech impediments. Therapists have used karaoke with great success with stroke patients, in regaining their speaking abilities. (SIDEBAR: a very funny dark comedy that uses this exact therapy as the backdrop for two different [...]

Solitaire has always been one of my favorite card games.  I used to sit and play it for hours with real cards.  Out of the many fantastic brain games, I enjoy the way it develops my mental skills. Then later, the electronic version came out on the computers, and, let’s just say, I played it so much that I dreamed about cards in my sleep most every night! I enjoy the game on the computer.  [...]