by Mary Helen Conroy | Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
I love the holidays; in my tradition it includes festive holiday decorations, family gatherings and snow. But, as we get older the list of what I “should” do for the holiday gets longer. Holiday cards sent, going to and giving holiday parties, presents for...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Let’s raise the white flag, and charge over the hill into retirement. For the nearly and newly retired, retreat is an amazing tool in our toolbox to create a retirement life that is indeed a daring adventure. Yogi Berra said it best, when he said, “If you don’t know...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
I had my first cup of coffee at our senior class ski trip up in Iron Mountain Michigan in 1969. I learned that if you asked for coffee that it was refilled for free, rather than ordering the more costly hot chocolate. Coffee became a staple, and those that know me...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Oct 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was January 21, 1991 at 8:31 am when I hung up the phone. Some moments in your life become defining ones. Moments that you truly never forget like a child’s birth at exactly 6:31 am or 2:14 am. Or the moment you knew, truly saw with clarity that your life was...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I love telling people what I do. I mention the words, I’m a reinvention life coach for midlife and pre-retirementand, you know those folks (aged 40-70) and I’m looked at as if I just dropped off the planet Zor. So what the heck do you do? they ask, always...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Jun 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Anyone who really knows me, knows that my desk no more looks like the picture above than ….you know! But, I always knew when to clean my desk. It was when I didn’t know exactly where in the multiple piles on my desk something was. I’m a member of the...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Jun 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Have you ever been to a funeral and heard how wonderful the person was? Have you ever wondered why all those good words and thoughts and thank you’s weren’t shared with the person before their death? So have I. Have you ever seen a friend or colleague leave their...
by Mary Helen Conroy | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m often asked the question: So what is a daring adventure? I’m a half-full glass kind of gal and so most of the time I say that it’s just getting out of bed. Isn’t that the most daring adventure we can have each day? Realizing that each day...
by Mary Helen Conroy | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
This weekend we celebrate one of the most incredible jobs on the planet…motherhood. For those women with children it’s a day of phone calls, or cards with flowers. For those women without children it’s often a very hard day of what if’s. I had felt that pain...
by Mary Helen Conroy | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A season of boxes The holidays are here. Have I ever told you that I love Christmas? I love the mystery of the day, the expectation, the wonder. I use this month to find miracles. Little miracles like a smile that crosses a friend’s eye when she sees a sunset....
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