Let’s start off with saying that this is my first DIY blog post…I’ve written over 700 posts and not one of them is a Do It Yourself. But I pulled off a project recently…I mentioned this memory book recently at a couple of workshops and presentations I led to illustrate a point, people asked if they …
Yikes! My kid lies! Does that mean I’m a bad parent? Well…if that makes you a bad parent, then I’m a bad parent, she’s a bad parent, he’s a bad parent–we’re all bad parents if measured by our kids lying. In fact, if kids are being dishonest, it’s a sign that they are growing in …
This is so not my first day on earth, but I have to admit that this was a few minutes well spent to remind myself of what it means to live on this earth: Enjoy your day…and have a corn dog if the spirit moves you–and it just might!
One of my favorite little people, L, has a hedgehog named Harriet. I’d never been up close and personal with a hedgehog before, and frankly, I won’t need to have this experience often! Hedgehogs are a lot more like porcupines than anything else. Porcupines may have needlesharp quills, whereas hedgehogs have quills that are rather …
As a therapist, I am likely in a relatively unique position to be an authority on this having witnessed this more times than I can count: The weight of a secret can be staggering. being abused as a child having an alcoholic in the family repeating a grade as a child having an affair …
How can you best love your partner? What turns his crank? What makes her feel special and cared for? Funny that we often assume we know how to love another…it’s easy. We love others in ways we know it is meaningful to be loved. Heh heh…if a wife likes gifts, she assumes her husband must …
In Part 1, I explained why I started this crazy adventure of no desserts, sweets, or chocolate…a matter of integrity…if I’m gonna work with clients as they bravely confront their numbing behaviours, I better step up and enter the same arena myself! I was going to treat this sugar-comfort-numbing thing like an addiction. Because I needed wanted …
In this age of instant and available communication with most anybody we know available with a few taps, the world isn’t an oyster, it’s a cell phone. Think for a moment. What do you do when: you are caught behind someone in a grocery line who needs a price check that is taking, like, …
I remember years ago, going to the baseball movie, The Rookie, with a rough and tumble 8 year old. The boy loved baseball. Late in the movie, we watched the underdog-struggling-pitcher finally making it to the big leagues. The pitcher goes down the long hallway from the dugout after the game towards the showers. He …
Refreshed and presented again from our archives…some ideas are just worth repeating! If you knew of a strategy that could make your teen 15% more satisfied with their lives, 15% greater sense of meaning in their lives, 17% more happy and hopeful, and have 13% drop in negative emotions as well as 15% drop in …