a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

So I have big, fun news to share! After a lot of thought and planning, Lynn and I are launching an online educational platform –  the Miracle Year Project – where we will publish books like, A Guide to a Miraculous Life, offer a life design course on how to live a miracle year, and…

Yesterday I read this insightful reflection by Mark Nepo, a poet, educator, and cancer survivor, on floating and faith. “When thrust into any situation over our head, our reflex is to fight with all our might the terrible feeling that we are sinking. Yet the more we resist, the more we feel our own weight…

“Everything has to do with loving,” said the poet Rumi. In this season many emotions can emerge and we can easily become distracted with our anxieties and fears. Rumi reminds us love is the companion we need when these feelings arise. Because love reveals what is real and worthy of our attention. Love both sustains…

We were on a walk last night and came across an exhibit of artistic Advent wreaths. One was made of a circle of alarm clocks (you can see a photo at on-emotions.com) and the card next to it read, “Just in the nick of time, this alarm clock… celebrates waking up and having the time…

I have come across this story many times and it always invites me to reflect on who I am and if the life I am living is in alignment with that person. It’s from the Talmud: When Akiba was on his deathbed, he said to his rabbi he was anxious about death and the sum…

We attended a church recently where one of the greeters said to us, “welcome home.” Home is such an evocative and powerful idea and feeling. It’s that place where we are safe, loved, accepted. Home could be where we live, it could be a park, a coffee shop, a friendship, partnership, or a spiritual community.…