top of page


#96: From abusive marriage to successful head lice treatment entrepreneur, her story will amaze you!
If someone tells you how they really are (like that they're crazy), believe them. That's advice from the Oprah show years ago Pay...
hopecook
Jan 12, 20221 min read
Â
Â
Â


Get your boodie in gear for the new year with a new way of looking at resoloutions
I love this time of year. No broken resolutions yet and my goals are still dangling like ripe fruit in front of me, waiting for me to...
hopecook
Jan 11, 20228 min read
Â
Â
Â


Baby, I'm Worth It
I love reviewing the end of the year and the start of a new one by going over all the things that happened, good and bad, and thinking...
hopecook
Jan 3, 20229 min read
Â
Â
Â


Quick Questions to Determine What's (or Who's) No Longer a Good Fit in Your Life
I’m reading a book about walking the Camino, a pilgrimage trail in Spain that takes 35-40 days to walk. The descriptions of ill-fitting...
hopecook
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


My BIG Announcement
Here's my story. So, as most of you know, I've been a Physician Assistant for almost 20 years. I first worked in internal medicine and...
hopecook
Oct 1, 202111 min read
Â
Â
Â


Small Steps to Mighty Wins
We recently returned from a trip to Oregon. We spent 5 nights on a river. We normally car camp maybe once or twice a year, so 5 nights of...
hopecook
Jul 15, 20215 min read
Â
Â
Â


Get off the Default Bus Route
We teach what we need. So I hope you don’t judge me when I tell you I’ve been stuck so many times, it’s become a joke in our family. Now,...
hopecook
Jul 1, 20217 min read
Â
Â
Â


10 Steps for Managing Modern Day Cortisol
If you’re in survival mode with the stressors of parenting, work, and all the other things in your life, how can you keep your head above...
hopecook
Jun 24, 20215 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Dangers of Self-Confirming Bias
I was listening to a podcast and heard one of my favorite self-help authors talking about how we tend to look for evidence to support our...
hopecook
Jun 17, 20217 min read
Â
Â
Â


How to Automate and Optimize Your Home Life
Part of moving forward on your journey will be to identify and clear away the obstacles in your path. Obstacles could be big things like...
hopecook
Jun 10, 20217 min read
Â
Â
Â


Why are you discontent? A simple exercise for pinpointing the cause and steps to solve it!
I don't hide the fact that I'm addicted to self-improvement podcasts and books. I calculated that over the last 10 years, I've read over...
hopecook
May 13, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


Who's in there and what's she waiting on to come out?
I posted a quote on my newsletter from a book I'm reading by Martha Beck. The book is called the way of integrity. In this book,...
hopecook
Apr 28, 20215 min read
Â
Â
Â


Who/What is your "boy next door"?
When I interviewed Suzanne Kingsbury last week, she said she felt like writing was like falling in love with the boy next door. She’d...
hopecook
Apr 14, 20214 min read
Â
Â
Â


Visualize and Implement Change or Shut up
Okay, on Saturday, you heard my interview with Talia Sierra and Heidi Brown, aka the Burnout Girls. I think it was Heidi who said you...
hopecook
Mar 31, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


Open to Possibility
Sometimes we need to be open to life to allow it to happen. Happiness is there and accessible if we can stop planning, making lists, and...
hopecook
Mar 24, 20214 min read
Â
Â
Â


7 Steps to Cultivating Stillness and Listening to Your Intuition
When I interviewed Debra Alt last week, she spoke about listening to your intuition. She said we should practice cultivating stillness...
hopecook
Mar 17, 20214 min read
Â
Â
Â


Never Let a "No" Be a Dead End
I interviewed Beatriz Buarque last week about resilience and not letting go of her dream of working for Globo TV from the time she was a...
hopecook
Mar 10, 20214 min read
Â
Â
Â


Girl, Choose Yourself!
Heather B Johnston talked in our interview last week about how she "chose herself" over and over while recovering from burnout. She knew...
hopecook
Mar 3, 20215 min read
Â
Â
Â


Self-Doubt Susan
Last week when I interviewed Shannon Ball, she talked about self-doubt. She said she's always had self-doubt. Each step of the way. But...
hopecook
Feb 24, 20215 min read
Â
Â
Â


My Story of Losing and Finding My Voice
Children should be seen and not heard was a frequent refrain growing up. I'm sure my mother copied it from her mother, who was born in...
hopecook
Feb 20, 20214 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page