Tips for Cutting Negativity from Your Life A healthy person has to trim some things out of their life at times. Think about the attitude you want to have in your life. More than likely, you’d like to be a happy person who enjoys daily living. It’s important to make that a conscious decision, but [...]
Keeping Life Balanced – Questions You Need to Ask Do you sometimes feel that your life is out of balance? Too much or too little of a good thing can be harmful. How do you know when things are out-of-whack? You might feel grumpy, lonely, too busy, or bored. You might realize that you [...]
Tips to Help You Tighten Your Personal Boundaries Just like a fence around our property, personal boundaries establish where we end and another person starts. Boundaries are the physical, emotional and mental borders we build to safeguard ourselves from being manipulated, used, or infringed by others. They allow us to establish our limits as [...]
How to Shatter the Illusion - I Want Everyone to Like Me - Life Tool Box Being rejected can feel awful Instinctively, you want to feel like you belong somewhere and rejection flies in the face of that desire. So when you feel unliked, even by someone you hardly know, it can cut directly into [...]
Problem Solving Formula There is a simple seven step formula for systematic problem solving. By solving problems in an orderly way, you can dramatically increase satisfaction with solutions. We all encounter bumps in the road that sometimes feel like roadblocks. It is easy to become so overwhelmed that we avoid thinking about our challenges [...]
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. -Richard Bach Transcending Path to Wellness Continuing with to the series of blogs on Wellness, this post arrives at the last dimension of the wellness wheel: the dimension of transcendence. I know that sounds pretty heavy, and it is open to all [...]
Finding the "Why" of Life as the Path to Wellness Do you ever ask yourself - Why? Our busy lives leave little time for quiet reflection. If we do allow ourselves to sit back and look at the “big picture” of our lives, we may connect with a deeply-seated inner part of our selves that is the [...]
We all have ongoing dialogues with ourselves – all the time, all day long. Most often we do it without even realizing that we are doing it. What is the tone that you use with yourself? Are you your own “BFF” and are kind, encouraging and loving with yourself? Or are you harsh, critical and [...]
Communication involves the organization of feeling and thinking energies and transforming them into messages. It is a key component of the wellness inventory. Communicating is an energy output that allows us to share our internal experiences of reality with others. And I know that's a really deep thought - so just take a second [...]
You’ve heard the proverb “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Maybe the proverb should be rewritten “All work and no play makes Jack an unhealthy boy.” And – yes – we have all heard the importance of life work balance. The key word in that concept is balance. Achieving a level [...]
