One of the tricks to keeping hope alive and staying open to possibilities when life has treated you unfairly is to know that in almost every situation it’s not personal. No matter how difficult, how upsetting, how much you wish things were different… In almost …
It’s a fact that communication builds or destroys trust in every moment. One of the tricks to building trust instead of destroying it is this… Be clear in your communication. *Be as clear as you can when you’re talking or writing… *Be as clear as …
Resentments are born from large or small events when we feel like we’ve been treated unfairly. Someone slights us or does something so grossly mean that we feel blindsided–and we hold onto that hurt, sometimes for years. There seem to be two kinds of resentments: …
Joan and her husband Paul were caught in a dangerous, toxic relationship loop and couldn’t get out of it. Paul had spent a great deal of money without telling Joan and it wasn’t the first time. Over the years, she had become anxious about their …
A toxic relationship can simply mean one that is harmful to one or both people in it but what’s “harmful” is subjective and can change from moment to moment. There’s of course the toxicity of physical abuse which should never be tolerated but there’s also …
A Toxic Relationship: Healing, Fixing or Leaving? Read More »
How do you deal with disappointment that comes in all shapes and sizes for all of us? We think something should happen or shouldn’t have happened and we hold onto that expectation, ruining relationships and making us physically sick. Here’s what Marie told us… She …
Letting go of disappointment can be one of the hardest challenges we’re faced with in life. It can be a disappointment over a relationship that didn’t work out, a job you didn’t get (or are stuck in), a diagnosis that looks grim and on and …
Lying to to yourself (especially when you can’t see it) is one of the biggest obstacles to truly connecting with the people in your life. Lying to yourself either about how things really are or how you think they are (when they’re not that way) …
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Most people think that the worst kind of lying is when someone else lies to you… They do something really bad to you and they lie about it… *Having an affair *Stealing money from you *Taking credit for something that shouldn’t be theirs to take …
You’ve probably heard the quote and the book by the same name by Susan Jeffers… “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” When you want to open up about your feelings but don’t feel like you can… It can be an insurmountable mountain to climb …
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