It’s 5:35 am and I’m awake. I don’t feel like I slept at all last night. My mind is racing with thoughts, ideas, plans — the knowingness that the pieces are coming together to create my “good”. About a year and a half ago, I remember lying awake in the same position, terrified. I was […]

Okay. So you made a New Year’s resolution to start exercising. You may even have joined a gym. But you’re already finding excuses why you can’t go today – no time, too tired, just don’t feel like it. Only 17.1 percent of women ages 25 to 44 get enough physical activity, according to Women’s Health […]

Back in November my friend, celebrity make-up artist Kenetia Lee, wrote a facebook post saying survival was boring and that she had made a decision:  2012 is her year to thrive.  She asked who else was in. It only took a nanosecond before I said, YES! and shared it. Revive. Grow. Luxuriate. Prosper. Flourish. That’s […]

Wish you were sitting next to the venture capitalist or boutique hotel owner couple of rows ahead of you on your flight from NYC to Paris? If you fly KLM, you can. According to TechCrunch, next year, the Dutch airline plans to offer passengers the chance to pick their seatmate based on Facebook or Linkedin […]

If the weather hasn’t shocked your soul into submission, the holiday onslaught just might. Usually, I can handle Thanksgiving just fine — grateful that I’m a single woman living in North America — but truth be told, by the time I’ve swung through, Christmas, New Year’s and that “holiday” that happens on February 14th, I’m […]

By Amy Ahlers, Certified Life Coach & Author “If only I were thin enough, beautiful enough, rich enough…THEN I could stop being so hard on myself.” Have you ever had that thought? If only your circumstances were different you could then magically shift your internal dialogue into an empowering, nurturing, loving one, right? After more […]

Nearly every week some study comes out about diet and nutrition, citing one or another food or drink and its effect on our health. Sometimes, the results are conflicting, so making sense of it all can be confusing. The fact is that some things are really good for us and others have some value when […]

So you want to start your own business but you’ve got all these excuses about how because you’re single, you couldn’t possibly do it alone. Well, we spoke with Silvia Johnson, CEO of Outside The Cubicle about being bold and taking a stand for yourself to do what you love. “Creating an ideal business for […]

It might be my Cancerian nesting instinct but I’ve noticed that whenever I travel to another city, I’m usually in search of my hood — the place that feels like me — the place where I would hang my hat (and dog leash) if I called that city home.  In Vancouver, it’s South Granville. Climb […]

Are you stressed out? Single women face a lot of stress—and I’m not just talking about finding Mr. Right. In today’s tough economic times, job stability is a major stressor. Single women have to carry the full load when it comes to finances and household chores. Many do not have a cushion to fall back […]