Eternity in an Hour
Following tragedy, any tragedy, eternity and mortality become close companions. Anyone who has been through trauma—any trauma, however defined—will understand how an hour, a minute, a day can seem like an instant or an eternity. In those moments we are lifted so far out of ourselves that time ceases to have meaning. Even in retrospect, […]
The Importance of Getting Grounded: My Experience Using a Grounding Mat
I think we can all agree that in a world of digital EVERYTHING, it’s pretty easy to get disconnected from nature. We move to big cities, depend on our phones for pretty much everything in our daily lives and spend a lot of our time on mainstream entertainment. We have forgotten how important it is […]
The Key To Finding Lasting Love
By David Steele Discover how your thoughts and feelings are your keys to living happily ever after. When singles become couples, each partner has different hopes and dreams, wants and needs, attitudes and experiences. These differences too often result in relationship failure and disappointment when one or both partners attempt to mold the relationship […]
SAYING NO
The courage to say no. Courage to say no comes from an understanding of your own boundaries and the fact that saying no actually saves you from personal or professional harm. It is better to say no than to say yes and be crushed under the stress of possibly producing poor product or disappointing the […]
Why Won’t My Teenager Listen to Me?
When my siblings and I were in elementary school, our family always ate weekday dinners together. During dinner we talked about everything. Everyone in the family had a chance to talk about problems, successes, and minutia of the day. My folks insisted that if we wanted to be listened to, we had to listen to […]
How to raise confident kids
HOW TO RAISE CONFIDENT KIDS In a world where social media, entertainment, technology, and other outside influences can guide our children’s thoughts and behavior, how do we raise confident kids? Parenting is no longer just about providing the basic needs of food and shelter, it’s is about protecting our children and teaching them the […]
What Not to Say in an Argument
YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU Of all the words not to say when a discussion is turning heated, ‘you’ triggers a myriad of emotions: anger, resistance, shame, distrust, or guilt. When faced with, ‘You are crazy,’ ‘You should be ashamed,’ ‘You’re wrong,’ ‘You could do better,’ or ‘You can’t,’ your response […]
Love == Blame it on the brain
Have you ever looked up LOVE in the dictionary? I did tonight. How interesting one 4 letter word can have so many meanings. There are at least 9 different definitions of LOVE. My favorite being a score in tennis, by the way. I also find it interesting that it’s firstly, a noun, when often it […]
Loosening the Grip of Toxic Words
In fourth grade, a fellow classmate told me I was ugly. At the age of nine I had no way of understanding jealousy, rivalries, or peer pressure. I just took what she told me as the truth. I lived with that ‘truth’ until the age of 27 when three wonderful friends worked with me to […]