The Get Lively® with Jan podcast

I’ve been talking quite a bit lately about how we need to keep on LIVING even though it may feel l like we’ve hit the PAUSE button on life. Sure,…

Life feels SO short of stable right now. I keep saying that I feel like I’m playing one of those scam games at a carnival… Just feeling short of stable.…

So the grocery store is now lined with floor to ceiling bags of candy. And this tends to kick off the season of clients coming to me and saying: HOW…

A few weeks back, I gave a virtual talk at the Council on Aging in Truro.  (My mom was actually my co-host!) I was asked to give this talk to…

“To be near something beautiful or precious but to be unable to experience it is the subtlest possible form of torture.” Robert Johnson Somehow I experienced this with a small…

Find Your Spark The last several weeks have been a bit of a struggle. For many reasons, some very obvious that we are all going through, I was having a…

The last few weeks I’ve been talking quite a bit about sadness, struggle, and trying to strike a balance with it all. This week will be no different – and…

“It’s okay, I’m fine.” “Yeah, but it could be so much worse.” “It’s all good.” Raise of hands for whoever else has been saying this lately but actually feels like…

The Delicate Balance of Living I had this thought earlier today and put it in my phone as a podcast topic. This delicate balance has been on my mind as…

Enjoying a Massive Glass of Lemonade Can you feel the smile coming through?   I’m smiling because, after another week of the highs and lows, I’m having a moment of realizing…

I don’t know about you, but do you feel like life has become one daily experiment after another? Do you find yourself coming up with scenario after scenario of what…

Who else feels like they are living under a tightly woven web of worry these days? Whether the obvious concerns about living during the age of Corona or perhaps debating…

Change takes so long because we debate it EVERY day.  Dang.  Is that true or WHAT?! How many times have you decided that you want to make a change in…

In my monthly membership group, Get Lively® OnDemand, we are focusing on being more present this month, because well, that is usually a challenge, but add a PANDEMIC to the…

Remember earlier this year when we first received the “stay at home” order for two weeks? And then it got extended, and extended, and extended… I thought that now was…

First of all, hope you are all enjoying this first week of July! Second, if you are like, well, most people, you’ve probably cycled through diet plan after diet plan,…

You know that feeling when an Amazon box arrives and you think to yourself:  Did I order something? Well, this happened to me the other day, and I was right,…

Gosh, my weekly messages really seem to be riding the roller coaster as well these days… And, well, now here I am about to write about the ups and downs…