“Don’t Let Your Holidays get Hijacked by the Past”
This time of year can be tough. Lots of being pitched to for spending money as love, to feel only "happy happy happy!", and a body that simply wants more sleep due to less sunlight. Add spending time with family you chose to move away from, lots...
“Are Ghosts Haunting Your Relationships?”
In my last article “The Calculus of Relationship” I talked about how simply pointing fingers at who is wrong in a relationship not going so well, does not make things better. In this follow-up article, I talk about how what may be wreaking havoc...
“The Calculus of Relationships”
Relationships can make your life feel like heaven and a relationship can make your life hell. You cannot avoid relationships and how happy you are in your relationships, impacts your family life, your career, even your health. Relationship skills...
“Are You Going to War for Peace?”
Don’t worry, this is not a story of the often sad and scary news in our world today. This IS a story about how choosing not to go to war for peace will grace your life with the integrity and the peace you are seeking in life and the world. 10 years...
“Love More Care Less”
There is a deceptively simple suggestion I offer to people working on themselves or their relationships -”love more, care less”. At first, most are surprised, for being told to care less is not what they are expecting from me. Yet, as I unfold more...
“Claim your true story…….not the lies you scare yourself with”
Last week I took my daughter to visit one of her college choices and as fate would have it, a college I had attended for a year. As I listened to the Director of Admissions talk, my mind wandered into past decisions and feelings I was realizing...
“What Frogs are Boiling in Your Life?”
"The Boiling Frog Syndrome"(BFS) is an anecdote about how a frog placed in boiling water will jump out immediately but when a frog is placed in cold water which is then slowly heated, froggie will not perceive the danger and will boil to death....
Being Authentic is Your Authority
Happy Springtime! A few years ago, a client reeling from choices made by her husband, was not happy with me after I suggested she spend some time learning about herself for healing her marriage. Her outraged “It’s 2012 not the 1950’s!! ” made me...