How to Forgive Your Parents to Heal Yourself
Your biological parents cannot be switched. Your past cannot be changed. However, your perspective can change.
How To Be More Resilient: Explore Your Childhood Wounds!
One of the most effective ways to strengthen personal resilient is to explore your childhood.
How to Really Listen to Your Body Wisdom
Your body is the vessel of your humanness.
Book Summary: Talk2MorePeople
Talk2MorePeople is like a communication and connection bible with a mix of personal vignettes, research, challenges, exercises, tools, and resources.
Research to Resilience to COVID-19
Research that supports resilience to COVID-19 serves us in most situations. Attending to our mental health is important no matter what.
Revisit Your Idea of Mother Love
Like many mothers, I have had breakfast served in bed by broad smiling children. Yes, on Mothers Day. Some years, I probably did not deserve the honor! Curious? Read on! The Beginning of Mother’s Day Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia began the campaign that brought about the official observance of Mother’s Day. Her mother died, and […]
Understanding Sex and Gender Differences
Women are still under-represented in all levels of government and in corporation boardrooms. At the same time, women are over-represented in family shelters and as ‘single parents’.
Volunteer Work Creates Helper’s High
One of the most effective ways of building resilience and bounce back from adversity is to lend a helping hand to others. Many people have experienced the boost helping gives them; hence the term helpers high when we do volunteer work. My own experience supports this idea. When our daughter, Kelly, was lost in […]
Book Summary: It’s All About Power and Control
A summary of Norman L. Quantz’s book, It’s All About Power and Control: Why Marriages Fall Apart and What It Takes to Put Them Back Together Again.
Journaling: Here’s Why and How To Do It
There are as many ways to journal as there are reasons.
Man Therapy to Empowered Sage
It is well known that fewer men than women seek therapy and that is well supported by my case load. Sometimes a male therapist is a better fit . . .
Why Bother with International Women’s Day?
I remember it well. When I was 21 I had my first job interview after marrying my long-time sweetheart and moving to the city of his workplace. I had applied for a position with the city as an Early Childhood Educator. The interview was held in a city hall board room by a committee of […]