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As almost all of the world’s population knows, September 11th, 2008 marked the 7th anniversary of the fall of the Twin Towers. After many years of living in California, I happened to be home visiting my family in New York City when 9/11 happened. The shock of losing so many souls only a few miles away from where I was standing that morning took my breath away.

Seven years later, it’s still a healing in progress for many of us. Indeed, the scar that the towers falling left is only starting to heal as the foundation of the new Freedom Tower is laid out.
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When or in what situation have you felt your most beautiful in your life?

Welcome to your Compass MAP™ (Monthly Action Plan). We’re so glad you could join us! This month, Compass Founder and CEO, Kim Fulcher is going to help you Make Over Your Look. (more…)

I often think about the prejudice I face as a gay woman and how fortunate I am to be able to choose when and how to share that very important part of my life. When I sense that it is not “safe” to be gay, I can choose to keep that information to myself. I often wonder how people of color, or other nationalities or religions (such as Muslim women right now), face prejudice and judgment every day and find the courage to deal with the pain of not being able to have that same choice. They wear their “minority” on their sleeves, so to speak. Quite simply, I get to hide and they do not.

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What is it that creates our life span? Is it the three Fates, as the Ancient Greeks believed? One who starts the thread of your life, one who guides it, and one who in the end cuts it off? Is it simply the will and whim of a Higher Power? Or do we have far more input in our own longevity than we dare, or care, to admit?

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Welcome to your Compass MAP™ (Monthly Action Plan). We’re so glad you could join us! This month we are talking about Defining Success with professional performance coach, author, speaker and Compass Expert Advice Blogger, Dr. Shawn Byler. (more…)

There are some expressions that seem to float timelessly and effortlessly through society. One of these is, “pretty as a china doll.”  Recently we’ve had to stop, however, and ask ourselves, “Just what does that really mean?”

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As we move to the close of the summer and the celebration of Labor Day, there is a swirl of emotions surrounding this weekend of transition.  On one hand, we are moved with a wave of melancholy over the ending of yet another season of shorts and sandals, pool-side parties and warm care-free days.  On the other hand, we are invigorated by the changing season and the fresh new beginnings that is synonymous with fall schedules. (more…)

With the wealth of real opportunities and real solutions to weight loss in our nation, we must be surprised to find that we are literally the heaviest people on earth right now. There are so many reasons we can come up with to find the underlying causes for this – we don’t have to think very hard. For example, the predominant use of High Fructose Corn Syrup and other sweeteners, the lack of living foods in our every-day foodplans, the busy, busy, buy lives we lead (that often lead straight to the fast-food line). But really none of these addresses the deeper issues of WHY we choose to be obese. (Admitting that it is a choice is even part of the problem – OR the solution. (more…)

Join us for this week’s CoachCast as we have a compelling conversation with author, speaker and spiritual healer, Mary T. Browne. (more…)

There is a particular brand of humor out there where the comedian routinely makes themselves the brunt of every joke. Many of those jokes tend to be about weight, body image, and in general, self-depreciation. The reason that we can all sit anonymously in the audience and laugh at these “put-downs” is that we can usually be fully confident that the star on the stage likes themselves.

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