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Paula Tozer Author

Paula D. Tozer is the author of three books - Saving Your Own Life: Learning to Live Like You Are Dying; An Elegant Mind's Handbook, and Enchanting Treve, a Novel. She is also an actor, singer/songwriter, Creativity Coach, competitive speaker, and leader with Toastmasters, as well as an avid cyclist, hiker, gym rat, and critter lover. The vast majority of her accomplishments have been achieved after the age of 50, demonstrating that It is never too late to be what you truly could have been...

Paula believes that living fiercely at any age is the way to optimize our time on this side of the grass. She has taken up the mission to inspire and motivate her contemporaries with what she has found that has allowed her to age with elegance, vitality, and most of all, good humor!

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Rewriting The Script: Aligning Your Theory Of Everything With A Healthy Future &Raquo; Pauladtozer
Rewriting the Script: Aligning Your Theory of Everything with a Healthy Future

The Mindset of Longevity Healthy fit begins with a mindset—setting the intention. It challenges your vision of getting older. What does your vision of old look like? Does it look like the example…

The Mindset of Longe…

The Mindset of Longevity Healthy fit begins with a mindset—setting the intention. It challenges your vision of getting older. What does your vision of old look like? Does it look like the examples you see around you? In your Family? In your society? What are your thoughts on Nursing homes? How independent do you plan on being at 75? 85? Or beyond? Your Theory of Everything—the unique perspective you hold about how the world works—is the primary engine that will either motivate or sabotage your long-term Health. Consider this: Your theory on growing older has never been tested. I…

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The Infrastructure Of Thought: A Theory Of Emergence &Raquo; Pauladtozer
The Infrastructure of Thought: A Theory of Emergence

I operate as a singular emergence, a witness to my own unfolding. My thoughts arrive from a pre-articulate “Wellspring.” My writing serves as the conduit, capturing the flow before I have even def…

I operate as a singu…

I operate as a singular emergence, a witness to my own unfolding. My thoughts arrive from a pre-articulate “Wellspring.” My writing serves as the conduit, capturing the flow before I have even defined it. This is the nature of flow: writing is my point of power, allowing me to bypass the mundane and linear to chronicle concepts as they manifest. This has become an integral aspect of my personal Theory of Everything. A robust Theory of Everything (TOE) must include everything, or it simply isn’t comprehensive. Yet, there is a divergence here: something can be comprehensive and rem…

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The End Of The Wait: Why Your Life Is A Resonance, Not A Race &Raquo; Untitled Design 7
The End of the Wait: Why Your Life is a Resonance, Not a Race

Most of us move through our days operating under an inherited script: that life is a linear progression. We treat our years as a long, arduous bridge we must walk across, carrying the baggage of our p…

Most of us move thro…

Most of us move through our days operating under an inherited script: that life is a linear progression. We treat our years as a long, arduous bridge we must walk across, carrying the baggage of our past, all to reach a “payoff” on a horizon that never seems to get any closer. We treat the present as a waiting room—a place to be endured while we “do the work” to become someone better. But if you pay attention to the texture of your own life, you might notice that this framework is precisely what creates the friction you feel. When you view your existence as a destination, you crea…

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The Anatomy Of Perspective: Deconstructing Your Personal Theory Of Everything &Raquo; Map Of Palates
The Anatomy of Perspective: Deconstructing Your Personal Theory of Everything

The primary purpose of this discourse is to introduce my audience to compelling evidence that our lifestyles—from our deepest ideologies and fashion choices to our very palates — have been conditi…

The primary purpose …

The primary purpose of this discourse is to introduce my audience to compelling evidence that our lifestyles—from our deepest ideologies and fashion choices to our very palates — have been conditioned. It’s happened to such a degree, and at such an early age, that they have become synonymous with our identity. We are, to a significant extent, the products of our environment. By examining the origins of our preferences, we can begin to peel back the layers of our personal “Theory of Everything” (TOE)—the unique, internalized set of rules, taboos, and parameters through which we i…

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Be Still, My Bleeding Heart &Raquo; Img 3386
Be Still, My Bleeding Heart

I’m still not feeling like myself since our badass boy, Skipper, died in November. They certainly are our fur-children, no doubt. He wasn’t quite 6 when he died, and I’ll miss him forever. We…

I’m still not feel…

I’m still not feeling like myself since our badass boy, Skipper, died in November. They certainly are our fur-children, no doubt. He wasn’t quite 6 when he died, and I’ll miss him forever. We have another dog, Benjamin B., the best boy ever, and I think he felt the loss too. Even though he and Skipper weren’t always the best of buddies, I think he sensed that death had come calling and that his mom and dad were sad. We did choose to get a new puppy in December because I was too sad and needed a reason to smile, and baby Sophie did help a lot! A few weeks after Skipper moved o…

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The Truth Of The Matter: Why Certainty Kills Creativity &Raquo; Flower Pen
The Truth of the Matter: Why Certainty Kills Creativity

I’ve always been fascinated by Truth. Not “truth” with a lowercase t—the subjective, shifting narratives we cling to—but Universal Truth. The stand-alone concept that fuels arguments, divide…

I’ve always been f…

I’ve always been fascinated by Truth. Not “truth” with a lowercase t—the subjective, shifting narratives we cling to—but Universal Truth. The stand-alone concept that fuels arguments, divides neighborhoods, and ignites wars. If writing is a vessel for discovery, what is it if it isn’t truthful? That question led me to my own “Theory of Everything.” I decided to strip away the assumptions and observe this five-letter word from every angle. This is the heart of Contemplative Writing: Enter the Sacred Space: Leave the inner critic in the waiting room. Remove Taboos: I…

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The Slaughterhouse Of The Sacred: Epigenetics, Algorithms, And The Architecture Of Control &Raquo; Untitled Design 3
The Slaughterhouse of the Sacred: Epigenetics, Algorithms, and the Architecture of Control

A Note to the Reader: If you find the following content provocative, consider this: it was designed to activate our epigenetic conditioning, yours and mine—to expose it—for your consideration. If …

A Note to the Reader…

A Note to the Reader: If you find the following content provocative, consider this: it was designed to activate our epigenetic conditioning, yours and mine—to expose it—for your consideration. If your immediate response is a flare-up of defensive tribalism or a sudden urge to protect the Sacred, I invite you to stop, if just for a moment. Observe the librarian in your own mind rushing to lock the doors. This is not just a post; it is a mirror. Consider the source of your outrage—is it yours, or is it the echo of a pastor you never met, speaking through your DNA? The shadow is …

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A Guide To Beingness: On The Art Of Living And The Ease Of Leaving &Raquo; I Am Stardust
A Guide to Beingness: On the Art of Living and the Ease of Leaving

Nobody is going to provide a definitive answer to the “Big Questions” of life. Anyone who tells you that “all you have to do is believe this, or stand here, or say this… or bow three times …

Nobody is going to p…

Nobody is going to provide a definitive answer to the “Big Questions” of life. Anyone who tells you that “all you have to do is believe this, or stand here, or say this… or bow three times into the sun…” is full of crap, IMHO. This is not unfortunate or dismal; it is simply the way it is. It is also my opinion that, with a few very rare exceptions, no person alive (or dead) knows exactly what was going to happen to them before they died. For those anomalies who may have known, I don’t think they cared to know exactly what was going to transpire. Why? Because they trusted…

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The First Lie &Raquo; Pauladtozer
The First Lie

You know, when I first realized that Christians lied, I was deeply upset. I had been fiercely fed the Catholic way of seeing and thinking from before I was born, by being born into the Legacy of Catho…

You know, when I fir…

You know, when I first realized that Christians lied, I was deeply upset. I had been fiercely fed the Catholic way of seeing and thinking from before I was born, by being born into the legacy of Catholicism. As a teenager, I focused my opposition on one parent—she was the vigorous enforcer of “the faith” in our household. Within this framework, the religious folks I knew extolled their version, delivered in their “house” of worship, and put on a friendly face while secretly believing that theirs was “the one true religion.” I remember a very influential person in my life being…

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Are You Surviving… Or Thriving? &Raquo; Chatgpt Image Jul 4 2025 03 16 51 Pm
Are You Surviving… or Thriving?

Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and heard them reply, “I’m surviving,” or “I’ve survived another year”? It doesn’t seem like much of a victory to consider yourself as hav…

Have you ever asked …

Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and heard them reply, “I’m surviving,” or “I’ve survived another year”? It doesn’t seem like much of a victory to consider yourself as having merely survived your life. Survival is necessary—yes, because we must survive the experience to tell the tale. But is it where we wish to remain? Generally, survivor stories originate from a negative or traumatic episode. We don’t describe getting married as surviving being single, or having a child as surviving childlessness. We may declare we’ve survived poverty before landing a …

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I’ve Heard Enough… &Raquo; Chatgpt Image Jun 26 2025 11 13 28 Am
I’ve Heard Enough…

It’s Time to Act. Today, my husband shared a podcast with me about fitness and Aging. It featured competitive athletes in their 60s, 70s, and beyond. They were all men. That’s when I …

It’s Time to Act. …

It’s Time to Act. Today, my husband shared a podcast with me about fitness and aging. It featured competitive athletes in their 60s, 70s, and beyond. They were all men. That’s when I got pissed off. Where are the fierce, fit, active women in their 60s, 70s, and beyond? Ladies, where are you? OMG—we need you!Honestly, I need you. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn Is it true? Don’t we have minds of our own? Sure. But our environment shapes us more than we like to admit. A few weeks ago, after a gym workout, I o…

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Tattoo Moments And The Rewriting Of Memory &Raquo; Chatgpt Image May 29 2025 02 46 40 Pm
Tattoo Moments and the Rewriting of Memory

Dynamic Past Theory in Action There are moments that mark us. Not with ink and needle, but with emotional permanence—etched into memory with the sharpness of a thousand unsaid words. I cal…

Dynamic Past Theory …

Dynamic Past Theory in Action There are moments that mark us. Not with ink and needle, but with emotional permanence—etched into memory with the sharpness of a thousand unsaid words. I call them Tattoo Moments. They are the snapshots we carry, willingly or not. The story we tell ourselves over and over. The memory that replays without invitation. They serve as a moment in time that we’ve lived, yes, but they also serve as a marker…showing us how far we’ve come since then. One of mine arrived at what should have been a joyful celebration—my baby shower, hosted by two of m…

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