Holding Pain And Goodness Together To Create A Good Life
Can it be okay that it’s not O.K.? How do we adjust to what’s not okay – to what we don’t want, didn’t ask for and may not like? We may feel that our entire life is that ‘something’. It may taint every aspect, if we allow it to. Which is why it is so […]
4 Questions To Start You On Your Path Towards Rebuilding Your Life
Are you in the process of rebuilding your life, in any way, shape or form? New job, no job; new partner, no partner; new children, empty-nester; new home, lost home. I’m omitting a lot of other life circumstances but I leave those to your imagination and situation. There are oh so many life events which […]
To Be A Victim, Or Not
Ever have something lousy happen to you? It seems to have come out of left field. It’s completely out of your control. And you go into that victim mode of “woe is me”. Even things that aren’t so terrible but to you they evoke that “why is this happening to me” knee-jerk response. We’ve all […]
Bringing Forth Our Strengths During Difficult Times
In my recent interview with Ellen Rogers, she emphasized the skills, or as I call them, character strengths, that helped her cope with her son’s devastating crisis. And she wonders if she was born that way, with her abilities to be resourceful, to problem solve and to manage complex tasks. The big concept for having […]
A Monkey’s Helping Hands – Interview with Ned Sullivan and Ellen Rogers
I’m so pleased to present to you a double-whammy interview – mother and son. And their adorable little helper. Ned Sullivan lives his life facing numerous challenges in the most high-spirited and upbeat manner. Eight years ago he was in a near fatal car accident that left him paralyzed. He has been rebuilding his life […]
A Lesson from the “Life Is Good” Brothers
Here’s a great bit of inspiration to start off your week. Let’s create a conceptual shift from ‘have to‘ to ‘get to‘. Instead of thinking in terms of what we have to do, let’s view it as what we get to do. One way is a chore, an obligation, a downer; the other is […]
Happiness Boosters
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” Robert Herrick ( 17th century English poet) No time for what you want to do? Are you overworked; perhaps you’re a single parent holding down a couple of jobs. Are you juggling a lot? Maybe you’re a caregiver; or maybe you’re pulled in so many directions because that’s how […]
Scheduling In Daily Exercise
Having written a post the other day about starting off our day by preparing ourselves internally to meet our external doings, I’d like to add another component. It doesn’t have to be done in the mornings but it does need to be done. And that is moving our body. Bodies are made to move. The […]
Start Your Day Off From the Inside Out
We bring who we are to what we do. When we bring the best of who we are, we do great things. We work from the inside out; we know ourselves, we have rich internal resources, we come from an authentic place, we are connected to what we do in a passionate and engaged manner. […]
Dealing With Those Uncomfortable Stares
Have you ever been stared at, pointed at, made to feel uncomfortable out in public? My last interviewee, Candida Sullivan, said such a beautiful line about dealing with this discomfort: “Stares and whispers no longer have any control over me. All a stranger might see are my scars, but it is up to me to […]