One of my favorite websites is titled www.comfortqueen.com. It is written by Jennifer Louden, one of my favorite authors. She also has like minded guests writing on her site. From the website, she offers a weekly newsletter that has wonderful tips and suggestions on living your life creatively and gently and powerfully. I look forward to these newsletters and I refer to her book The Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life often. It has been my guide for many years. My copy is very beaten and worn. Signs that it is well loved. She also has written other Comfort books that are equally useful. I really enjoy her work. Down the line, I'm sure that I will end up posting about some of her suggestions and activities to help with different emotions in our lives. It really is something to look forward to. She has recently started a blog that lets out her shadow side for her readers to see, involving us in all aspects of her evolving creativity. Aside from her work, another thing we had in common in a weird twist,was that her father is battling cancer. My father, as you all know, recently passed away from cancer. Sharing through the newsletter, we found out that our dad's had the same cancer doctor at Virginia Mason Hospital! Small, small world.

Last week I was writing about the little things in life that make us happy. Small things that were inspired by 14000 things to be happy about. Lo and behold, when Jennifer's newsletter arrived in my inbox, her Self Care Minder spoke of the same things with a different spin. I contacted her for permission to reprint part of her newsletter here and she replied with enthusiasm yesterday. If you would like to know what she said in her newletter, read on!