Totally geeked-out about talking to Donald Davis. My daughters grew up listening to his stories and hearing him for the first time changed my life.

He’ll be telling stories at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival at Thanksgiving Point on Sept. 7-9.

Donald Davis has been telling stories at national festivals for more than 40 years. 

He was born in a Southern Appalachian mountain world,  rich in stories. While he heard many traditional stories about Jack and other heroic characters, he was most attracted to the stories of his own family and places of origin.  

During his twenty-five year career as a United Methodist Minister, Davis began to use stories more and more.  He was also asked to begin performing at festivals and in other settings until he retired from the church to tell stories full time.

The author of eighteen books and more than forty original recordings, Davis is the recipient of both the Circle of Excellence and the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Storytelling Network.

Learning how to create well-being can help make life softer and more content. I offer five easy practices to create more well-being in your life. Thanks for listening!

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I talk with Lindsay Powell, the owner of Healing Grove Therapy.

Lindsay brings bringing playfulness, creativity, and movement into the healing process to break up old patterns and create healthier ones. She enjoys helping people change their ways of relating to anxiety and difficult experiences from resistance and dread, to curiosity and kindness.

She uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness training. She knows Everyone’s experience is unique and she would love to hear your story and create an individualized healing path.

What do UFOs and chakras have in common? According to my weird dream, it's all about service.

Getting organized can feel overwhelming but taken in small steps, it can change your life.

Marla Dee is the founder of Clear & Simple Organizing and has spent more than 20 years helping people clean up their clutter.

Marla shares her tips and tricks for getting any area of your home/life/office organized and efficient. She is the author of “Get Organized, The Clear & SIMPLE Way” and “The ART of Letting Go.”

Gladys is what I call my shadow side.

She can be bitchy, grumpy, irritated, judgmental and just a pain in the ass.

I'm learning to live with her and identify when she's taken the wheel. More often than I'd like to admit.

As we explore our shadow side through intentionality and curiosity, we just might come out the other side a better person.

Each of us has a shadow side that springs into action whenever it finds a chink in our armor.

It could show up as pettiness, anger, jealousy, bitterness, self-doubt, meanness or any other "dark" emotion or feeling

Getting to know your shadow side can help you understand your self in a better more compassionate way.

For the next couple of weeks, I'll talk about shadow work and how you can incorporate that into your life.

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Barbara Brannen's book, "The Gift of Play: Why Adult Women Stop Playing and How To Start Again" is a wonderful instruction guide for bringing more playfulness, joy and laughter to your life.

I loved talking with her about the book and the story behind it.

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This time of year, graduates are getting ready to fly out of the nest and start a new chapter.

Well, I think we should, too. Start a new chapter.

Here's some advice to get you moving into a new and (hopefully) exciting adventure.

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