How many times have you heard someone say “you just need to stay positive” when you’re going through a rough time. And how many times did you feel like turning around and bitch slapping them in the face?

As someone who has actually been bitch slapped for saying that, I’ve learned that it can be a lot easier said than done, but it is possible and it is important for attracting what you want.

The reason for trying to remain positive is simply because positive emotions attract more positive emotions into your life.

It’s not that you’re NOT attracting when you’re not positive, you’re just not attracting things or circumstances that will give you more positive emotions.

Remember, underneath all of our desires is an emotion, which is what we’re really after.

Hands down, Gratitude and Love are where you want to be to feel the best. This is where you’ll attract your highest good and the highest good for everyone else, as well as, the planet.

But it can be very hard for us humans to just ...

My mom, my sis & I LOVE the holidays.

We live for it. We celebrate Christmas, but it’s about the entire season for us.

We get into and enjoy the whole experience throughout the month of December.

The atmosphere, the shopping, the repetitive songs, Love Actually, the wrapping and most of all surprising each other.

My mom (Debbi) was a FANTASTIC Santa when we were kids and as we got older we wanted return the favor and keep the Santa magic alive.

It turned into a standing tradition where we get each other lots of gifts and wake up together Christmas morning. (Like kids, but we're not.)

I’m now 39, my sister Stephanie is 36. We’ve never spent a Xmas morning apart. Boyfriends have come and gone and come again, but we do not, will not, break this tradition.

We sit by the tree for hours with our coffee and the on-demand yule log loop on the TV trying to extend the present opening ceremony as long as we possibly can.

Because we loved the experience so much, we wanted it to last foreve...

I've made a lot of changes in my life over the years, big & small & I know first hand that it can be SO. DAMN. HARD.

What I've realized is that every time I've been successful (& by successful I mean not only did I make the changes happen, but they stuck, for GOOD) was when I've used my 6 Step EASY PEASY LOA™ process to create them.

If you've ever been or have known an (addicted) smoker you know how friggin' hard it is to quit!

Yes, I used to be a "smoker".

And I’m not apologizing for it because I LOVED IT.

Like, really loved it. I mean looooovvvvvvvvveeeeddddd iiiiiiit. So much, with all of my heart, omg it was WONDERFUL.

Especially with my morning coffee. Life did not get any more heavenly than that.

At the time I started to consider quitting, I was still a designer in the fashion industry which was getting really old & I was stepping into a "new me” as a health coach.

Obviously my smoking & being a health coach did not mix.

No matter how hard I tried to mix it… (which I did...