The Get Lively® with Jan podcast

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…

Oh how I love the month of June… and here we are, mid-way through it. This is my absolute favorite time of year – I love everything about the summer…

I don’t know about you but I am having a tough time getting the wind back in my sails these days…  I’m not used to living with so much uncertainty…

Last week I asked if you, like me, felt like you were drowning in “what if” scenarios. I shared my current “what if” list and the cycle it was playing…

Who else feels like they are DROWNING in “what if-s?” right now? At the time that I’m writing this message, here in Massachusetts, the Governor just laid out the reopening…

As the debates are raging over: wearing masks in public, when we should reopen, what businesses should open first… I find myself wanting to crawl into the fetal position! But…

Recently our good friend, known in these parts as GP, posted a video on Facebook. In it there was an aspect of grief over what we are missing out on…