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

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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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Encouraging you to let go on near a river.

Sometimes you simply have to let go of a relationship! Do not break your own heart by trying to fix a relationship that is clearly not meant to work. You cannot force someone to like you or to be loyal.  Read more…


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Is it a monster?  Or is it just something ordinary? This morning we took our dogs to the Veterinarian.  Simba has issues with other dogs so I went in with Chico and scoped out the waiting room. No other dogs Read more…


Encouraging you to heed this pearl of wisdom on near a river.

A pearl of wisdom that everyone should read. An oyster is soft, tender, and vulnerable.  Without the sanctuary of its shell it could not survive.  But oysters must open their shells in order to “breathe” water.  Sometimes while an oyster Read more…


Encouraging you to make someone's day on near a river.

Make someone else’s day happy every day of your life and you will feel happy also! There was a rich man and a poor man.  The rich man usually only thought of himself while he poor man was different—he had Read more…


Encouraging you to read this funny letter on near a river.

Read this funny letter and have a good laugh! A father passing by his son’s bedroom was  shocked to see the bed was nicely made and everything was picked up. Then, he saw a letter, propped up prominently on the Read more…


Encouraging you to turn around a bad day on near a river.

Five healthy and inexpensive ways to cope with stress on a bad day! Are you having a bad day?  Please do not let it drag you down! Last Friday, I had a really bad day.  Ken Dunn (affiliated with Rebel Read more…


You can change the life of one child and improve the world! Do you want to make a difference in the world? Of course you do! Here are two ways you can change a child’s world.  Purchasing things a child Read more…


You can prevent a negative person from dragging you down! How should you respond when someone is negative and angry toward you?  How can you prevent a negative person from dragging you down? If you want to be a peacemaker Read more…


Grandma taught me how to love and how to get others to love me back. My Grandma did not even complete elementary school, but she was very wise about human nature. Although she was poor financially, she was extremely wealthy Read more…


Encouraging you to learn these lessons learned from life on near a river.

What have you learned about your life along the way? Do you regret how hard your life has been? Or do you think about what you have learned from your life? I think about what I have learned from my 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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