I had a really interesting encounter last week, and I've been dying to tell you about it!  I was a vendor at the fall fashion launch for B.D.F.O. Lifestyle brand.  (I highly recommend looking them up and following on social media.) I met lots of interesting people and got to talk chakras with new friends. 

One of these new friends is Mia.  After doing some chakras Q&A with her, she revealed to me that she is a stoic. She said that when she read about the philosophy of stoicism that it felt like home to her, and that in fact she believed her grandmother, who raised her, was a stoic.  She began to enlighten me with some of the ways of thinking that helps her stay grounded and unaffected by the conditions of the world around her.  Here's my favorite:

You can only control two things: what comes out of your mouth, and what you do with your hands.

 Everything else, everything, is out of your...