Add Self-Respect to Your Repertoire
With self-respect as your guidepost, many relationship dilemmas, crossroads, emotional hurt, sadness and anguish, are either avoidable, shorter lived, and will …
Affairs, Betrayals, Infidelities. Part One
These are all dirty words to the “victims” and not so healthy for the perpetrators. Please withhold judgment until you have read this and thought about it. …
The Many Faces of Grief
After my sister-in-law died suddenly, I grieved for my brother and his overwhelming pain. After my father died, I went shopping. After my brother died, I …
Change as a Choice
Change is a topic we can address forever because it’s always happening! And we, as humans, are usually averse to it. There is a coherence to sameness that we …
An Indecisive Retirement: A Story of the Struggle of Heart versus Mind
“May your choices reflect you hopes, not your fears.” ~Nelson Mandela I have come to appreciate this quotation sitting in my condo overlooking the Coal …
Pack These Tools for a Journey to Change
When making a major life change it is best to begin from a position of strength. Self-compassion and awareness are two essential tools. Social Conditioning and …
Be the Change You Wish to See in the World
Unless one has been living in a cave cut off from civilization, or under a self-sustainable rock cut off from the grid, it is difficult to not be cognizant of …
What Changes Will Fall Bring for You?
“He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.” William Blake It’s …
4 Tips for Managing Change
REAP the Rewards! As I reflect back over the last few years and all its moments, months, and seasons, I admit that I have experienced some pleasant and also …
8 Stages of Adapting to Change
Recently I saw someone I love die. I mean I literally saw him die. Some of you may have seen this many times. Others of you may never have seen this. But I am …