Parenting Skills to Raise Responsible Children
Stop over-managing and over-indulging your children and learn parenting skills to build trust, self-worth and personal responsibility.
Empowering people to make strengthening choices
Calm Heart and Clear Mind
I have learned that the best thing I can do when things are not going my way is to stop trying so hard. I need to step back, quiet myself, be present, and simply observe. From this emerges a calm heart and clear mind which enables me to take better, more effective action.
Learning to be Optimistic
We often think of certain attributes such as optimism and pessimism as givens, permanent and ingrained into our personalities, something that we have little control over or can do nothing about. That’s not a very helpful point of view. It renders us helpless, powerless, victims of either our genetics or early child upbringing. However, scientists […]
Bouncing Back-Lessons from Watching a Child Learn to Walk
What if we use setbacks to inspire and motivate rather than deflate us?
How to Deal with Setbacks in Life
Setbacks happen to all of us. We recover, not only as a function of the passage of time, but by learning to manage our emotions and then moving forward by making positive choices.
Oh Well! supporting myself no matter what
It's good to come from oh well. We do our best, knowing it falls short. Yet we can still decide to support ourselves no matter what.
The Courage to be Imperfect
I heard from many of you a few weeks back about my article entitled “The Belief That I’m not Enough.” Not surprisingly, the topic resonated with a lot of people and so I’d like to continue this theme by exploring ways we can conquer this self-damaging belief and create self-acceptance and confidence. I thought I’d start […]
The Belief that I’m Not Enough
We put way too much on having, doing, and being enough. It creates incredible stress and keeps us from loving life.
