Why and how to start your own Gratitude Practice This past week marked 730 days of my daily gratitude practice: 2 years of sharing 5 things I am grateful for each day with 2 friends – who are also sharing their 5 gratitudes, and then we each reflect back to one...
Here is an example of a shared agreement that I use for the gratitude practice that I mention in my blog posts “Why and How to start your own Gratitude Practice” and “The Science behind creating a new habit.” Every relationship is basically a fabric of shared...
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...
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 –...