by Hollye Dexter | Dec 31, 2014 | gratitude, life lessons, maya angelou, new years resolutions
For the past few years on New Year’s Eve, I couldn’t wait for the year to be over. They were years of struggle and challenge, lawsuits and deaths and restraining orders and floods and exploding plumbing disasters. But in these years, there have also been...
by Hollye Dexter | Nov 20, 2013 | gratitude, inspiration, writing
To all of you who read the excerpt from my new memoir Wind To Wildfire (posted for the 24 hour period on the anniversary of the fire) I thank you, thank you, thank you.Words are insufficient to express my gratitude for your encouragement and support. I am warmed that...
by Hollye Dexter | Oct 2, 2013 | gratitude, life lessons, Marianne Williamson, miracles, positive thinking, reclaiming joy, surviving disaster
“A miracle is a shift in perception.” – Marianne Williamson In my last post, I talked about the scientific fact that nature abhors a vacuum, and that when you release negative energy from your life, something else will rush in to fill that space. And wow oh wow has...
by Hollye Dexter | Sep 25, 2013 | answered prayers, gratitude, how to be happy, life lessons, positive thinking, prayer, ridding your life of negative energy
–>”We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”-Albert EinsteinFor months now, I have been in a funk. And then I got sick of it. This is how it started.All year I had been looking forward to summer. I was...
by Hollye Dexter | Sep 5, 2012 | book published, Dancing At the Shame Prom, gratitude, releasing negative thoughts, releasing shame, Seal Press
After over a year of hard work, phone conferences with authors, long editing hours, many, many meetings, downloads that didn’t work and frustration and emails…I am finally holding Dancing at the Shame Prom, our book, in my hands. My husband bought a great bottle of...
by Hollye Dexter | Jun 27, 2012 | Bill Moyers, Good news, gratitude, gratitude journal, negativity cleanse, ridding your life of negative energy, the power of positive thinking, tuning out bad news, tuning out TV, Turn off the TV
Yesterday was Day 2 of my Negativity-Cleanse. Or perhaps I should rename it my Happiness experiment.Tuning out the bad news allowed me to have a great day. Interestingly, the only negativity that came up yesterday was from inside my own head. As I sat down and began...