Know Yourself: The Most Difficult Challenge In Life

Hi, Boomers, I just read an awesome quote by Carl Jung: Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. I got to thinking about the speech and workshop I am giving

Life Coaching Through Life

Hi, Boomers, Last weekend I experienced a transformational event. I spent two days at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica and received my certificate as a Life Coach. Sixteen hours, including 8 hours of practice in Motivational Interviewing. I never

Harlan’s Harley: The Bliss of a Bike

Hi, Boomers, I’m working on my new highlight video for my website. Instead of having two of my speeches in full length on my video page, my wonderful new consultant, Joella Hopkins, urged me to make a highlight reel. Sounded

Marriage

Hi, Boomers, On Saturday, June 23rd, 2012, I officiated at the marriage of one of my yoga students from UCLA to her boyfriend of seven years. When Veronica asked me to marry her and Alex, I was so astounded, I

The Cycle of Addiction

Hi, Boomers, When I was a practicing drug counselor, I used to say to those I counseled who had drug or alcohol addictions that we are all addicted – if if was not to drugs or alcohol, we were addicted

Customer Service Need Not Apply

Hi, Boomers, Am I getting old or am I getting cranky and then old. I can’t tell sometimes. I had plans yesterday. It was Saturday and I was going to take the afternoon with my dear, adorable friend (as in

Life’s Lessons Are A Bitch

Hi, Boomers, Isn’t it amazing how much we still have so much to learn from life? Just when you think you’ve seen it all, done it all, made all the mistakes that you could possibly make, we learn more stuff

Women, My Women

Hi, Boomers, When I was doing research for my memoir, 60, Sex & Tango, Confessions of a Beatnik Boomer, I read something of great interest about women. As women grow older, they become closer in spirit to other women and

The Awakening

Hi, Boomers, Enough fighting and crying! Enough holding on to things that are no longer! Let’s talk about how to manage change. Let’s talk about your awakening. I’m riding my horse today. It’s going to get a little sweaty out

Do We Ever Grow Up?

Hi, Boomers, Are we forever slogging though adolescence. Are all interpersonal relationships bound to end in “he said, she said?” Can we ever get relationships right? I guess I’m thinking, do we ever really listen to one another. We jump