40 Things I Will Give Up For The Second Half of My Life Get wild about how I think 1.Putting conditions on love: expect something from someone when I offer kindness and compassion. 2. Judging others for things I am also likely to do. 3. False speech. 4. Complaining about something rather than changing my […]
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Being a parent today is no walk-in-the-park, especially when your children or teen is experiencing anxiety. Anxious kids are not happy kids. And anxiety in young people is growing and growing. Get my free PDf to understand why. But here is one of the reasons the number of anxious kids are rising: Commercialism. Yep, I said
“Work ethic is less valued than in the past.” This is what an exasperated client said to me recently. Her college classmates critiqued her for working hard earlier that day. They were worried about her because she puts an incredible amount of pressure on herself. I actually worry, too. This pressure stresses her out, causing
International Women’s Day It is wonderful that today March 8, International Women’s Day falls on a full moon this year. What is International Women’s Day? Since 1975, women’s right and women’s awareness has been celebrated on this day. It has more emphasis in other countries and less in the US. It is so un-widely known
How do I transcend fear? Two things to keep in mind: Connect Fear often has us feeling very alone. If we have experienced trauma in our life, this sense of vulnerability multiplies to a panic. Some of us isolate ourselves, which only makes the situation worse. Others feel an intense need to be around someone
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The concept of universal oneness is sometimes hard to wrap your brain around. We grew up with us/them, win/lose mentality. This is called dual thinking and it is the cause of so many of our problems. We feel separate from other people and this has us up to all sorts of antics: getting angry, feeling
Do you find it is hard to motivate yourself? If you are a highly motivated person, you don’t need to read this post. Go take a nap. If you have all kinds of excuses to get things done, read on… What is motivation? Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains
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Reposting about my Great Grandmother Frances today! It is one of my first posts from years ago when nobody read my blog! It is an excerpt of an article I published called “Therapist As Host: Making my guests feel welcome” in The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work 2006 No.3, Published by Dulwich