I’ve been thinking a lot about the proverbial elephant in the room… The things we don’t say, because we don’t want to be a burden we assume the other doesn’t want to or is not able to hear what we have to say we want to be kind or polite we are afraid they might...
“Feel the Feeling – Drop the Story” – Pema Chödrön I have spent most of my life “in my head”, practicing my “intellectual intelligence” – and for the most part I did not really know that I did that… It seemed so normal to “think things through” in...
New Year’s Eve has come and gone – and with it the disappointment of once again feeling lonely as everyone around you greets the new year with an embrace and a kiss as you look on… but it still feels raw when you think about it… You are determined more than ever that...
Happy New Year! And here’s to new beginnings… This morning I overheard a conversation in the Gym, where one man said to his friend: “… And I’m NOT letting yet another year go by… I know I said this last year, and here I am again in the same place! But this it, I...
When I was a child, growing up in Germany, on the evening of December 5th, we would shine our biggest, tallest pair of boots and put them by the front door – along with our Christmas wish list. While we slept, St. Nikolaus would come and retrieve our wish list –...
The definition of Grief – In the “Grief Recovery Method®”, an action program for moving beyond death, divorce and other losses, by John W. James and Russell Friedman, we define grief as follows: “Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss of...