Midlife can be a scary time for anyone. Life-altering changes are frequent and unexpected and often disorienting. How can you prepare for it? More importantly, how can you deal with it when it comes. It IS all a question of “mind over matter” but just telling yourself to “get over it” won’t work. What will?
Read More..>>Pain, whether it’s from sickness or just growing pains, offers its own challenge to those of us who would move forward physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, or politically. “No pain, no gain” the old saying reminds us, but that really all depends on what we’re willing to do with it when it comes.
Read More..>>As we strive to clean up the wreckage left behind by our choices and behaviors, we find that the flip side of apology is forgiveness. When we see ourselves as the wronged party we have a fundamental option: forgiveness or vengeance. Which one we choose reflects on our own beliefs about who we are. Which of our beliefs need adjustment?
Read More..>>The fourth article in this series of “Cleaning Up Your Wreckage” takes on the deepest levels of pain that we experience from messing up. It’s a pain beyond the embarrassment, guilt and even shame of experiencing our fallibility. It comes from recognizing that, from now on, we have to see and to do things differently.
Read More..>>There are many ways to deal with the onset of emotional pain. Some approaches are more effective than others. There’s one approach that has all the advantages and few of the drawbacks: write it out.
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