Traci's Blog
As a writer and a hypnotist, I end up sitting a lot throughout the day. Sometimes, I have to set a timer to make sure I get up and move around! It’s really important to remain active. Our bodies were designed to move, so moving is a great way to honor your body. Diet and exercise are important partn...
Years ago, I was wide awake at 3 am and watched these two ladies dance and pitch their new workout program, Yoga Booty Ballet. Funky yoga and ballet? Sign me up! I bought the programs and began a new way of thinking about exercise and my body with Beachbody programs. One of the concept
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Lately, I’ve experienced mental fog - big time! I’m juggling a lot of different projects right now, and my mind always seems to be racing from one thought to the next…and then poof! Whatever I was just thinking about is abracadabra…gone! We’ve all experienced mental fog. As a hypnotist, I help my cl...
Doug and I celebrated the 3rd anniversary of meeting each other this past Friday. We met through OKCupid.com, which is not all that different from how millions of others meet potential boyfriends and girlfriends. What was different about us was HOW we went about it.
I read a ton of books on how to...
Yesterday was an amazing day. Doug and I began our day having an amazing breakfast buffet with our “chosen family” at Paradise Lakes Clothing Optional Resort. We then headed to the pool area to relax. At 1 pm, the owners of the resort and several guests poured several bottles of Mr. Bubble into the ...
I think everybody has THAT song, that when they hear it, they are magically transported to another world. I know whenever I hear Anyway You Want It by Journey…I’m back in junior high (young people: it’s what we had before Middle School). Whenever I hear Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf, I’m cruising the ...
Learn the art of agelessness!
For 18 years, I was a professional people watcher, also known as a “comedian.” I got paid to watch humans and report on the weirdness of what they do in the funniest way possible. After many years of training, I now simply walk into any room and, at one glance, can put...
The Ghosts of Crafts Past... My mother used to get me all kinds of craft things when I was growing up. She loved sewing and crafts, my family members loved sewing and crafts, so it was just a natural progression that I did them too. Somehow, the crafting gene that was supposed to be transmitted gene...
Last year, I began taking a series of courses with Robert G. Smith, who teaches Eutaptics, which is a brilliant combination of Hypnosis, NLP, and Tapping. I love his combination of these techniques because it gets results very quickly, but more importantly, I get to use my sense of humor in order to...
To say I had an unusual upbringing would be an understatement. While my friends were headed to conventional vacation places like Disney or Cedar Point on a Memorial Day Weekend, my parents would pack up their 1926 Dodge Brothers Touring Sedan with a picnic basket (complete with a portable liqu
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“‘We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka.
‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!’”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of my favorite books of all time. An eccentric recluse chocolate factory owner, and innovator, sends out 5 Golden Tickets into the world to to...
A few years ago, I realized the life I knew was coming to an end. My life as the daughter of my parents was coming to an end with my mother’s illness. My life as the wife of my soon-to-be ex-husband was also coming to an end with our divorce. My extended family is mostly in Ohio, and I wasn’t about ...
