How to Build High Self-Esteem
One way we develop self-esteem is by learning resilience--practicing positive mental strategies to support ourselves when life gets tough.
Empowering people to make strengthening choices
Three Powerful Leadership Practices
A few years back I did some consulting work with a hospital that wanted to improve the quality of management across the entire organization (admin, doctors, and nurses). They began by administering a survey to all employees, asking them to rate their managers on a number of management and leadership practices. From the results of […]
Allowing Negative Emotions
We habitually distract ourselves from our negative feelings. However, as we face them with compassion and non-judgment we experience emotional nourishment and personal liberation.
I Will Open My Heart
All of life, the good and the bad, can bless us if we open our hearts to the love abounding in our moment by moment experience.
Boundaries in Marriage
When we get clear about boundaries we can make choices rather than just react. We become empowered. We can now search for creative solutions to what seemed to be intractable problems.
Negotiating Expectations in Marriage
Expectations are the specific beliefs that you have brought into your marriage about the way things will or should be. In general, if your expectations are met then you are happy. If not, you experience disappointment and frustration. Therefore, understanding and learning to negotiate your expectations is a key factor in your marital success.
Gratitude to Unseen Others
I’m very mindful, as I sit at my computer this morning, of the utter horror of last weekend’s shooting in Las Vegas. My emotions vacillate from shock to anger to sadness that something so inhumane can happen, yet again, in America. Such events occur all too frequently and effect each of us deeply as we search […]
Making the World a More Benevolent Place
Benevolent is my new word. It has been on my mind a lot in recent weeks and months, particularly given what we’re going through as a nation and world. The Meaning of Benevolence The simple definition of the word is a desire to do good to others, to be charitable, to act kindly. I think […]
