When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

Category Archives: Overcome Anxiety

You can calm anxiety!

Articles in this category give readers strategies to calm anxiety. Strategies include music and art therapy to anger management to avoiding toxic people and many more. These posts include how to sleep well at night, reduce stress, have happy days, and others.  Its purpose is to enable readers to soar like eagles above life’s storms and calm their anxiety.

BJ’ s vision is insightful and motivating. Her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.  These articles will enable and inspire you to calm anxiety.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives.

Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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Strategies to help you beat this heat this summer! The heat can make you feel generally miserable, and it also intensifies depression and anxiety. There is no way to completely escape the summer heat, but you can try to beat Read more…


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I am walking through the storm right now.  Here is my motivation to keep going. Right now I am walking through an emotional storm. The sky around me is completely dark. I see lightning and hear the thunder in my Read more…


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Guess what, World?  Here are some things for you to think about! World, you have done things to me that I do not appreciate. At times you have looked down on me.  Sometimes, you have made me feel so different Read more…


Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. I learned many years ago that he was right. There is no fear like the nighttime fears of a child, and mine were no exception to this Read more…


Encouraging you to share in her spirit on near a river.

If only we all could have her spirit, the world would be a much better place… This morning my husband and I walked to get some breakfast.  As we walked past one home, a two-year-old girl came running out. She Read more…


Encouraging you to deal with life effectively on near a river.

I have learned to sort out what issues are just life and can be ignored, and what I need to change. Here is what I have figured out. My hair has always been naturally curly, for all of my life. Read more…


In this game of tag, you are now the IT. Tag someone else and continue the game. Did you feel that? When you opened this post, a hug jumped out and grabbed you. That hug just tagged you and now Read more…


Are you dreading something that may happen in your future?  Read on… Right now as I sit at my desk typing the wind is howling loudly outside in gusts over 50 miles an hour.  We have over 3 feet of Read more…


If you want things now but are not getting them, this post is for you! When I was a small child, I frequently asked questions.  To my questions that began with the word “When”, my Grandma would usually reply, “In Read more…


Encouraging you to just wait to make a decision on near a river.

Are you over-stressed?  Please keep calm and just wait… The news constantly bombards us with messages that we must take action immediately.  This message can become so ingrained in our minds that we do not know when to stay calm Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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