Well, Day 1 is finished in San Antonio…I am taking the certification for The Daring Way (TM) cirriculum with Brene Brown. Her Ted Talk has millions and millions of views…because she talks about the feeling of being “not good enough”, vulnerability and authentiticy in a way that equips people to live richer, fuller, more …
Hump Day Nudge: Kid Wisdom
Around our house, I used to say, “Remember to mind your manners, offer to help out, ask them questions to show interest, and say ‘thank you’”, and so on, whenever one of my junior tribe members would go to a friend’s house for dinner or a sleep over. After a while, as they would be …
Hump Day Nudge: Loneliness
We are created for relationship. Pure and simple. A video on loneliness hardly seems like a little boost to get a person through the week, I know. But this is beautiful, clever, and the graphics say just what the voice does, ever so eloquently. Ironically, it just feels like something a person should share with …
FAQ’s about yelling at your adolescent
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published a study this fall that looked at the relationship between teens being yelled at and their behaviour. The results were inconvenient, to say the least, to parents who use yelling as a form of steering their teenager into appropriate behaviour. To put it quite simply, the study found …
The Marriage Hack
What if I told you a way to sustain the quality of your marriage could be done in 3 chunks of 7 minutes of writing three times a year..21 minutes to ensure your marriage doesn’t deteriorate? Would you do it? Sounds too good to be true? I love life hacks…simple strategies that can make a …
Hump Day Nudge: Getting off the Bench
We are made to live in community…and we do well when we help each other out. I saw this video recently…only 68 seconds long, it inspires me to look around and make myself available to help another who needs it. Darnell Barton is going along, doing his job, and notices that someone needs help. He …
The Woman Cold
So…last post about the man cold…and this one about the woman cold. And now is when the woman say: What woman cold? There is no such thing as a woman cold. I don’t have time to be sick”. Yes. exactly. That would be the exact context of the woman cold. You see, women struggle with …
The Man Cold
You’ve seen this, or a version of it, while watching a commercial for cough syrup or cold symptoms, right? Some research suggests that women are biologically more sensitive to pain and therefore more likely to struggle during illness. Other research suggests that men have different temperature receptors in their brain and feel “rougher” during the …
The dark side of integrity–terror! :)
As a therapist, I have a front row seat every day to displays of raw courage. There ain’t nothing like it…I see people take enormous risks and say things out loud that they’ve never even dared form into an official thought inside their head. It’s awesome…truly. A gift that clients give me daily is to …
Hump Day Nudge: Kindness changes the giver
November 13th is the International Day of Kindness…let’s celebrate!! Quote by Lao Tzu I love stories of pure kindness that comes in unlikely places to a person who could use a dose of grace in their lives. I love those stories even better when a person extending the kindness experiences change inside that transforms who …