by Jeanette DuBois | Apr 30, 2020 | My Morning Mimosa
I am writing this particular blog late. I’d had one all ready to go, on time… but then the world turned upside down and inside out and suddenly I found the thoughts I’d had a month prior no longer seemed to fit in the middle of this new reality. The more serious...
by Jeanette DuBois | Mar 29, 2020 | Featured, My Morning Mimosa
I begin with a caveat noting I am not a therapist, psychologist or counselor, and there are many professionals out there who have written on this subject with a variety of valuable suggestions, including expanding on the ones I list here. I gleaned mine from books I...
by Jeanette DuBois | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, My Morning Mimosa
It’s 7am and my eyes barely crack open as I sense a presence near my face. I feel the nuzzle of a soft beard and hot breath on my cheek as my husband whispers goodbye. He’s on his way to work, and I still have at least half an hour before I have to get up, so I...
by Jeanette DuBois | Jan 26, 2020 | My Morning Mimosa
The Elements of Magic Earth, wind, air and fire are traditionally the four pieces of a puzzle, the sides of the room, the building blocks of alchemy. Yet when you put them together they create only a square, a two-dimensional space, they are missing that which gives...
by Jeanette DuBois | Dec 26, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
As a child, I was normally fearful of the darkness when I went to bed, having to have a nightlight on not only to see my way to the bathroom but just for the comfort it gave. However, there were certain times when the opposite was true. I remember that eager...
by Jeanette DuBois | Nov 30, 2019 | Featured, My Morning Mimosa
A funny thing happened when I was asked to write about family this month. My mind went blank. Writers block came up and I struggled to find a coherent thought to put on paper. Why was this, I wondered? After all, I have a great family. I am surrounded by an extended...
by Jeanette DuBois | Oct 28, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
There was a weekend this month that has changed me. It was the weekend of my beautiful sister-in-laws’ Celebration of Life. That Saturday my husband and I flew in to Phoenix with extended family. We arrived in time to change and head over to the place we all were...
by Jeanette DuBois | Sep 22, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
As I began writing this months’ blog title, I meant to write “The Hole Left Behind” rather than “whole.” Yet there it is – and I am realizing, it was what they’d call, perhaps a Freudian slip. Or an act of the universe, giving me a little lesson. Because sometimes in...
by Jeanette DuBois | Aug 23, 2019 | Featured, My Morning Mimosa
Recently I was talking with my sister while my mom listened on speakerphone. At 92 years young, my mother has had a series of micro-strokes which makes it difficult for her to remember things or respond quickly – but she does pay attention, and she does contribute to...
by Jeanette DuBois | Jul 20, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
Sometimes the only way to be free is for something to die. There was a day I was driving along the California coastline in my little convertible, wind in my hair, tent and suitcase in my trunk, heading to camp at the beach. I was running away. I was at the end of my...
by Jeanette DuBois | Jun 16, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
My father was in the hospital… he’d been there at least two weeks. His kidneys were failing, and his heart was struggling. He’d been battling Diabetes for about two years, and at 90 his strong body was finally getting weak. But still, his mind was...
by Jeanette DuBois | May 17, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
I was asked recently to talk about the power of the feminine. In this era of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel, I figured that should be easy. Finally the world is recognizing that women can do it all, right? Hold the child with one arm while saving the world with the...
by Jeanette DuBois | Apr 20, 2019 | Featured, My Morning Mimosa
I never wanted children. I never wanted children. While everyone around me was planning and having families, I was on a course of my own, wanting to be free and experience life to the fullest, not wanting to be responsible for anyone else other than myself. It...
by Jeanette DuBois | Mar 20, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
One day in the hospital, this mischievous and funny and loud child came out of me. Because I got bored. “Not allowing fear to cover up my playful heart.”- Jim Carrey A Jim Carrey speech and his words about not allowing fear to cover up my playful heart is...
by Jeanette DuBois | Feb 25, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
Depression likes to sneak up on me and pounce.I’ve dealt with it ever since hormones kicked in. It is often triggered by seemingly innocuous things. An email I read in the wrong light. A circumstance in life that leaves me feeling helpless. Most often, it jumps...
by Jeanette DuBois | Jan 15, 2019 | My Morning Mimosa
With the beginning of the year, I’m thinking about “trust.” Trust is a magical word, just as the beginning of a new year is a magical time. There are elements of hope in them both. They both encourage one to believe that good things are...
by Jeanette DuBois | Nov 26, 2018 | My Morning Mimosa
How to stay in a place of gratitude when you are exhausted (physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually)…….You can’t.OK, get past that idea even though that feels real right now, and consider it.Get up in the morning…. Nope. Not grateful...
by Jeanette DuBois | Oct 22, 2018 | My Morning Mimosa
One day as I was driving to a Yoga class, I was running late, and in my rush to make it, I went too fast down a small side neighborhood street. By “too fast” I am not saying I went 80 in a 35 zone, it was more like I went 40 in a 30 zone — not...
by Jeanette DuBois | Sep 24, 2018 | My Morning Mimosa
I once had a counselor say to me; “You can change your past. Just re-write it.” Excuse me? But then I had one of those flash of insights as to what she was talking about. The past, just like the future, exists only in your mind. It is no longer here, in...
