Expanding Gratitude
(Popular Gratitude Exercises and Activities)* The benefits of gratitude have been extensively researched and shown to improve health,...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
30+ Ways to Determine What's Important to You
The end of the year is a terrific time to evaluate what goals we've reached, what barrier's we've overcome and what we want to leave...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
Developing a Growth Mindset & Living Powerful Perspectives
To successfully change your approach to challenges is to shift your perspective. Instead of perceiving challenges as proof of one’s...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Sep 12, 2022
- 6 min
The Terrifying Zip Line
Research by developmental psychologists suggests that personality traits are formed in early childhood with half being inherited from our...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Jul 21, 2022
- 5 min
8 Tips for Leading with Empathy
If you're a career professional, you've undoubtedly witnessed or experienced weak leadership. Perhaps it was with a boss who micromanaged...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Apr 4, 2022
- 4 min
Talking Turkey
My friend and I had a routine of working out together three days a week. It was a commitment to keep us accountable to ourselves and to...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Feb 11, 2022
- 3 min
Questions to Improve Communication & Relationships
I believe questions have the ability to change our world. A sideways concept, maybe, but please stay with me. Questions enable healthy...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Jan 20, 2022
- 2 min
What we Believe
The work teachers do literally changes lives. On any given day (particularly during a pandemic), teachers are expected to fulfill the...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Jan 20, 2022
- 2 min
4 Exercises for relaxation, anxiety, and stress
Breathing is more than a physical requirement to live. It is foundational to spiritual, mental, and emotional aspects of life. Hindus...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Nov 9, 2021
- 4 min
You were Born to Stand out
Blue Jays have never been my favorite bird. They appear to bully smaller birds and they toss perfectly good seed to the ground. They make...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Aug 24, 2021
- 5 min
Par for the Course
It was a sunny Saturday afternoon when we decided to try our new discs at a local 9-hole disc golf course. We had ordered them online and...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Jul 13, 2021
- 7 min
Homeless Drummer
The tickets were for three games of the Minnesota Twins series against the New York Yankees. The first game was scheduled for a Tuesday...
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Samantha Bluhm
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
Managing Toxic Relationships
Turbulent relationships can sap energy, confidence and wear down your sense of stability. It can bleed into the rest of your life and...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Abandon Cliches
Our stories are based on our beliefs. What makes us believe that things happen for a reason and that time heals all wounds? Sometimes we...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Dec 14, 2020
- 5 min
COVID at Christmas
I dreaded the idea of heading to Menards and Walmart on a Friday night two weeks before Christmas. Even with the COVID slowdown, I had a...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
Equality v. Equity
As a parent (and stepparent to 3 bonus boys), I’ve learned the hard way that what works to motivate one to start (or stop) a behavior may...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Nov 4, 2020
- 4 min
An Imposing Force
I watched in horror as reports of terrorism unfolded. I began to watch with intense curiosity how the world responded to the cascade of...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Maggie was born with cerebral palsy and would never walk, talk, feed or dress herself. Her parents were told she'd be lucky to live past...
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Samantha Bluhm
- Sep 18, 2020
- 4 min
Ten Throws
When I was young, my parents signed me up for city league softball. We practiced twice a week and played Tuesday night games. My dad was...
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