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Master Your Emotions with Confidence

Would you like to boost your confidence, self-worth, & emotional resilience? Every week I share tips on how to cultivate lasting personal growth, sprinkled with fun, creativity, and spontaneity in my weekly newsletter: The Ponderings of a Feral Housewife.

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Harsh truth: You're not as important as you think (and that's great news)

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #83 || August 29, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, In an effort to apply my own advice about overwhelm, this'll be the last time I record this newsletter. Sorry to disappoint the few that enjoyed it. Listen to this week's newsletter Ready for a tough—but necessary—reminder? You're not as important as you think you are. Yep, it's true. But here's the thing (cause there's always a thing 😆), this is GREAT...

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #82 || August 22, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, If a recording is available I'll post it here 🙂. Listen to this week's newsletter Ever have a bad day? Or a bad moment? Dumb questions, right? Everyone has bad moments, and sometimes even entire days. Bad days / bad moments = negative emotions Ideally, we want more good days than bad. But that can depend on a lot of factors, right? Like your mindset,...

too many options!

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #81 || August 15, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, If a recording is available I'll post it here 🙂. Sorry not this week On a scale of 1-10 how easy is it for you to make a decision? Are you the type who always knows what you want, and naturally go for it? Or Are you indecisive? You never know what you want— you agonize over two choices. Heaven forbid you're faced with multiple options. Um...one of...

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #80 || August 8th, 2035 || Previous issues Hey Reader, When a reading is available I'll post it here 🙂. Sorry not this week :( Ever have one of those moments where you watch yourself saying something and think, "WHO IS CONTROLLING MY MOUTH RIGHT NOW??" Yeah. That was ME. Yesterday. And not just yesterday. That's me, over and over, possibly a million times—and I haven't even lived that long (Lie—50 years...

Chewing the cud

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #79 || August 1, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, Quite a few of you enjoyed listening versus reading. Can't promise I'll record every week due to time constraints. But when a recording is available I'll post it here 🙂. Listen to this week's newsletter Are you a rebel? I am. Most of the time, as much as I can, and I like it. There's something about going with this world's flow that makes me crazy. It's...

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #78 || July 25, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, Before we jump in, I'm trying something new. NEW FEATURE: Listen to a recording of this week’s newsletter! Let me know what you think if you decide to listen. Listen to this newsletter Do you struggle with perfectionism? I used to think only "perfect people" struggled with that. I assumed perfectionists strove for success and always hit the mark. I just...

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #77 || July 18, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, Give this girl a tiny bit of energy and I'm offfffffff! Hiking. Biking. Roller skating. Horseback riding 🏇. Dancing in my bedroom (thankfully no one's watching). Yep just like Elaine. Iconic moment. Do you ever get the ants-in-your pants syndrome? Where you can't sit still and want to jump out of your skin? I can't be the only restless one around here!...

A small waterfall flows through a lush forest.

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue #76 || July 11, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, I have lots to say today. So I better get going...after all, you have a summer to enjoy. Don't blink! Otherwise you'll miss it. Can you call yourself a writer? I have serious imposter syndrome when it comes to creative writing. I've written poems, short stories, flash fiction, essays, blog articles...you name it. I even have several unfinished novels, some...

A silhouette of a child at dusk.

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue # 75 || July 4, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, How's your summer so far? It's feeling a lot like a perfect summer day today in the Hudson Valley. Beautiful blue skies. Warm, breezy, and sunny. 🌞 Low humidity. A perfect rarity. NY weather is emotionally unstable. (I can identify!) One day it's sweltering hot, the next frigid, and the rest are rainy 🌧 and grey. These highs and lows are NOT conducive for...

The Feral Housewife's Guide to Living Authentically, Creatively, & Intentionally Issue # 74 || June 27, 2025 || Previous issues Hey Reader, Do you enjoy writing? Or is it a chore? If the last time you wrote was for work, school, or educational purposes; it's understandable that you'd view it as a chore. Think for a moment... When was the last time you wrote simply for the pleasure of writing? Or When was the last time you wrote for the benefit of your mental health? Yep, mental health! He's...