Two Practices for When You Want to Hide
We hide our true selves for many reasons. We hide because we fear rejection. We hide because we don't want to upset others. We hide...
When They Don't Want Forgiveness
When someone doesn't want forgiveness, are you off the hook? Is it okay to harbor resentment, anger, and pain if the person who hurt you...
Fear of Being Myself
Fear of being myself has always been a struggle for me. When I was at home as a child and teenager, I was often told not to be or do this...
When Questions Veil Judgment
(Note: To catch you up if you didn’t know, I am a nanny to two amazing young men who were newborns when I first began caring for them and...
Don't Argue with MY Experience!
I was watching an interview with Sheila Nevins, world-renowned documentary film maker and producer, on CBS Sunday Morning when something...
When Questions are Threatening
When I was 8-years-old I learned questions could get me in trouble, yet I had to ask questions. Questions were the means to calming...
Connection and Communication
When you communicate, what is your goal? Have you ever thought about that before? My guess is most of the time any one of us sets out to...
Relating Well Begins Within
Relating well to one another is not an easy task. Our emotions threaten to overtake our brains. We say one thing and the receiver hears...
Time, Time, Time
Did you know we have a relationship to time? We often think of time as an entity or a commodity, but as something to relate to, not...
