Learning to listen with an open mind rather than a defensive attitude opens us to learn and allows us to grow — When I was a kid, my friends and I would play a board game called ‘Life’. The game was pretty simple; you would spin a wheel and move along the board in a car color of your ... Read More about Living on the Offense or Defense: Replacing Reactivity with Understanding
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Choose Love: A Vital Strategy for More Success
How do you react when you don’t think about it? Do you react from a place of fear or from love? Pause, take a deep breathe and then act deliberately. — I believe people are either moving towards love or running from fear. We do this in every daily activity. Think about driving in your ... Read More about Choose Love: A Vital Strategy for More Success
Mind Games: Exercising Your Mind for Emotional & Mental Health
Exercising your mind requires patience and discipline, but it is a practice that will help you to feel more in control of your entire internal state — A few years back I wrote an article called Mind Yoga: Why and How to Bring Awareness to Your Thoughts. In the piece, I discussed how our ... Read More about Mind Games: Exercising Your Mind for Emotional & Mental Health
Reopening My Mother Heart: A Journey From Tragic Heartbreak to Hope
After experiencing tragedy and shutting down, a mother finds her way back to reclaiming the bond with a daughter she always yearned for — Given that being a parent can be such a challenging and unglamorous enterprise, why do people bother to begin with? Because sentient beings are made to. ... Read More about Reopening My Mother Heart: A Journey From Tragic Heartbreak to Hope