“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...
Choose Love
It is a hard sell some days to convince clients whose heart has been broken, betrayed, or bruised to choose love (again). While your heart will go to the mat for choosing to love again, your mind (and friends unhappy) will call you a fool for...
“Being Kind to Yourself is not Optional (for Happiness as a Grownup)”
This 3rd article is about how essential being kind (compassionate) to yourself is for happiness, health, and peace in a world gone a bit topsy turvy. Being kind to yourself is imperative for happiness and requires you become more comfortable with...