It’s been said that suffering is guaranteed for anyone who takes on the arduous task of living – but have you ever considered how boring life would be if we had nothing with which to contrast joy? Would we even recognize it as joy? Part of the blessing of life’s...
Is it all you can do to drag yourself out of bed every morning? Are you irritable in situations where calm is the norm? What about stomach upsets or headaches? You might be tending toward burnout. Burnout is simply exhaustion that happens when you’ve been overwhelmed...
You’re not a tornado, are you? Oh, good! So you agree it would be unproductive to spiral out of control? Well…. Have you ever considered your inner mechanism one might refer to as your “personal weather report?” It’s a real thing, I assure you! You may not have a guy...
What if the economy tanks? What if you get a bad report from the doctor? What happens if a hurricane hits? There’s a song called “What Ifs,” that says “We could worry about the “what ifs” till the world stops turnin”. We live in a time of anxiety and uncertainty. ...
Psychologists define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or anger toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness? You might think that forgiving someone who isn't...
Are you afraid of anything? Come on now... everyone is afraid of something! How about Spiders? Or heights? Snakes? Whatever it might be, have you ever let your fears get the best of you? Have you not reached a goal because fear stood between you and success? You...
Anxiety can make us feel as though we are the victims of our own thoughts. And….that is an accurate way of describing what is happening. Anxiety IS caused by our thoughts. Our thoughts are produced by sorting and rationalizing what we read, see, and hear. By allowing...
Have you ever thought of slashing something from your schedule...but only halfway? You know...backing off instead of cutting it out entirely? You’ve heard the phrase “A slice of life”? That seems preferable, doesn’t it, to eating the whole cake…? Moderation can mean...
The phone isn’t demanding a response. Neither is email or text. No music is playing and the television is off. It’s...silent. In these moments, why do most of us turn something on to fill the silence? Even if we are aware we have done so, most of us probably don’t...