In honor of anti-bullying month this October, watch this and think about how you talk about others in front of your children, your friends and your colleagues. We all learn from each other about how it is acceptable to talk about other people. Unfortunately, the internet and social media have made it too easy …
Life Lessons #3 Opposites don’t forever attract
We’ve all been told that opposite attract…well…that might be true for magnets and for black cat hair on white pants…but not so much for couples. We continue our series looking at the 5 surprising but valid principles of relationships outlined in the latest issue of Psychology Today. For a long lasting union, look for someone …
Empowering from the Inside Out
Let’s face it…when men meet for coffee, they get their coffee, talk for 20 minutes and go home. Why? Because they finished their coffee. When women meet for coffee, they get a steaming extra hot latte…so that it too hot to drink for 20 minutes…then they sip it glacially slowly. When there is about 1/4 …
Life Lesson #2 Benign Neglect
The second of the series featuring unlikely and surprising but important principles for living well…we’ll start with a story… Not so long ago, one of my junior tribe members asked to go outside in dark late at night with a friend (who didn’t have his license) and practice parallel parking on the street with our …
Lesson for Living #1 Radical Acceptance
The latest edition of Psychology Today has a key article emphasizing the fundamental importance of relationships in having any sort of healthy and satisfying life…relationships being key to overall life satisfaction, physical health, and resilience to stressors. Relationships, are simply a key to a vitalized life. The Psycholgoy Today article, entitled Lessons for Living, outlined …
Community–The value of “me too”
Brené Brown was on the brand new Katie show last week…she was great in encouraging folks to dare greatly to be authentically themselves. Jenny Lawson, blogger and author…and sufferer of anxiety…opened the door to a candid look at her anxiety through her writing. That took courage. She didn’t want to create a “false history” that …
Crying
If I had a dollar for every time someone apologized to me for crying, I just might be able to retire as independently wealthy. Crying is so often seen as a sign of weakness, or something to feel bad about…like somehow watching someone cry might be offensive to me. It seems almost automatic for most …
Daring Greatly
The question that used to guide my life was ‘What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ Since I wrote the book, Daring Greatly, and since I came across this quote, my new question is ‘What’s worth doing even if I fail?’ Brené Brown Bust through the fear of not being …
Let’s Talk
When you work with someone long enough, and work very collaboratively and effectively with each other, it gets a l’il spooky… Today I was in the middle of a lunch time meeting with a coupla therapists and in the middle of it I suddenly realized I was booked to be in class on Friday afternoon …
11 years since 9-11
The day North Americans learned what it was like to feel terror; to grieve for fathers, sons, wives, sisters…friends of friends of friends; to understand how it changes the world when buildings are randomly destroyed with so many inside. Innocent lives lost, other innocent lives forever changed. Use the time of the video to remember …