Author: Dr. Sharon Ufberg
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Outliving Your Mother, What’s Next?
As my birthday approaches, I cannot help but think about the fact that this year I will have outlived my mother. She lived only 2 months past her 56th year. Her life cut short sped up mine. As a woman just entering my 20’s, I had no time to lose. I subconsciously put my life…
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Napa Valley Rocks!
I recently spent four days at an outdoor rock ‘n roll music festival called Bottle Rock Napa Valley I hadn’t been to a rock concert in over 30 years and I had never been to one that lasted for days. I spent the first 2 days with my 20 something daughter. We were totally compatible…
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Don’t Let Your Past Shape Your Future
reposted from Huffington Post Once again, we find ourselves standing at the time of the year when we are supposed to charge full steam ahead into an improved diet, renewed gym membership and better disposition. We are to commit to a revised list of must dos and will not ever agains –underlined and starred. But…
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Turning a Fun Month into a Fun Life
reposted from the HuffingtonPost Women I decided a few months ago that I wasn’t having enough unadulterated fun. I was too busy being serious, researching important but concerning topics, working long hours and not spending nearly enough time living life with more abandon. Now nobody has ever accused me of being too conservative, acting too…
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Fall Media Projects
This Summer and into the Fall, I have taken on a number of interesting media gigs. Beginning with the spectacular Wine Women and Shoes event in Napa.http://www.winewomenandshoes.com/napavalley2012 . Next up I will be covering the WOW factor event on Sept 8th, with an incredible line up of women speaking about women’s health and vitality http://www.thewowfactor.co/speakers/. Sept 21-23…
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New Year’s resolutions are not for me- here’s why…..
reposted from Huffington Post This year I am not making any New Year’s resolutions. No list-making of all the things I should have done this past year but didn’t or the even longer list of what I should stop doing. Instead, I am going to focus on all the fabulous things I have done, want…
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Women Warriors: Not Your Everyday Desperate Housewives
reposted from Huffington Post Women Meaning no disrespect to our women in the armed forces, the women warriors I am referring to are not packing a pistol or taking orders from anyone. These women warriors are fiercely feminine and fully equipped with more powerful energy, creative inspiration, deep intuition, knowing, and vision— mountains of vision…
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Wanted: Original thoughts only
Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed by the voluminous amounts of information being pushed towards us all day, every day? Between twitter links, direct emails and the endless stream of facebook newsfeed, I am starting to find this onslaught of news, reviews and opinions to be quite frankly TMI (too much information). As an integrative health…
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Love And Forgiveness At The Core Of Healing
reposted from The Business Of Me newsletter Recently, I heard Marci Shimoff, best-selling author of the book, Love for No Reason, speak about love and forgiveness. I was amazed by my profound and positive experience using one of her practices for opening up the heart to love and forgiveness. It is called Ho’opononpono and is…
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Heading Into Mother’s Day With Compassion Fatigue? Me Too
(Reposted from the Huffington Post) Isn’t it ironic? The week of Mother’s day finds me comforting a friend who’s elderly Mom died, consoling a mother whose young daughter passed away and soothing a close relation with a seriously ill Mom. My combined feeling of empathy and compassion for all of their sadness and grief is…
