Emotions. The barometer for a healthy mind.
Emotions. Or what do paint, prejudice, and traffic lights have to do with each other? Recently a friend of ours was embroiled in a bit of a controversy with …
Why Most New Years Resolutions Fail
The Real Reason Most New Years Resolutions Fail. The end of 2015 is upon us, and with it brings the promise of a new year. January brings a time …
The Most Meaningful Gift you can give Yourself
There’s just one more day until Christmas. Most women have completed their holiday shopping, and most men are about to begin. The usual gift list stressing has begun: hoping …
Velvet Shirts, Pacifiers, and Crutches
Learning to live un-tethered to guilt. When I was in the 7th grade, I saw a shirt in the mall that I knew I had to have. It was …
How to Choose the Right Rehab for You
With nearly 15,000 rehabs in the United States how do you choose the right one for you? Horses, meditation, painting, and roughing it in the wilderness…drug rehab programs offer …
The Sun is Always Shining Somewhere
You are the creator of your emotional weather even when clouds obscure the view the sun is always shining through. Flying from California east, from a window seat, one can check …
The Secrets of Forgiveness
The health benefits of forgiveness and how to enjoy them whenever you need. It’s common knowledge that there are some major health benefits to forgiveness. Studies show that …
Why We Always Want To Be Somewhere Else
Contentment can be found even in imperfect situations. It can, in a word, give you back the two-thirds of your life that you would have otherwise sacrificed for the idea of something better, something which will always be just out of reach.
Improving your Hindsight
Improving Hindsight. A look behind the scenes at the process that creates emotions. It’s a common English idiom: “Hindsight is always 20/20.” It means that looking back at a situation …
White Knuckling vs Letting Go
Learn the art of letting go! “It’s a running joke between my friends and me that we will get together as soon as we’re free.” If you’re a parent, or …