Standing Up For Yourself When the Rest of the World Wants You to Sit Down and...
I don’t want you to think I blogged about the incident with the new General Electric dryer I purchased from Best Buyer seven months ago that doesn’t work just to use my power to whine out loud. I’ve...
View ArticleGood News and The Bad
I strive to avoid dualities – good and bad, right and wrong — those judgments many of us make. Most of the time even emotions fall into one category. We don’t feel good or bad. Joy and pain are the...
View ArticleFair is Fair
Last night, I ordered my office supplies online (late at night) from the store where I always order them: Office Depot (www.OfficeDepot.com). Let me preface this story by saying Office Depot isn’t an...
View ArticlePractice What I Preach?
Last week I asked someone to help me do something. While that might not sound like a big deal, it is. Sometimes I call “flipping the coin” and being the exact opposite of codependent “recovery.” I...
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Drain Pain
No, I don’t mean a clogged kitchen sink or a shower stall that empties slowly. I’m talking about allowing people, places and things to slowly and insidiously creep in and begin sucking the soul,...
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How Much Can You Receive?
The question posed by this Blog’s title doesn’t mean, How much mistreatment can you take before doubling over in pain and then exploding in a crazed rage while the Other Person says, “See how crazy...
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How to Protect Your Energy
Just as we strive to protect and conserve earth’s energy resources, we can strive to protect and conserve our own. Become more aware of the impact of things, people, and activities on you and your...
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Developing Healthy Tolerance
Many of us are skilled at denying and discounting what hurts us. We may endure a particular situation, telling ourselves repeatedly it’s not that bad; we shouldn’t be so demanding; it’ll change any...
View ArticleStanding Up For Yourself When the Rest of the World Wants You to Sit Down and...
I don’t want you to think I blogged about the incident with the new General Electric dryer I purchased from Best Buyer seven months ago that doesn’t work just to use my power to whine out loud. I’ve...
View ArticleGood News and The Bad
I strive to avoid dualities – good and bad, right and wrong — those judgments many of us make. Most of the time even emotions fall into one category. We don’t feel good or bad. Joy and pain are the...
View ArticleFair is Fair
Last night, I ordered my office supplies online (late at night) from the store where I always order them: Office Depot (www.OfficeDepot.com). Let me preface this story by saying Office Depot isn’t an...
View ArticlePractice What I Preach?
Last week I asked someone to help me do something. While that might not sound like a big deal, it is. Sometimes I call “flipping the coin” and being the exact opposite of codependent “recovery.” I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drain Pain
No, I don’t mean a clogged kitchen sink or a shower stall that empties slowly. I’m talking about allowing people, places and things to slowly and insidiously creep in and begin sucking the soul,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Much Can You Receive?
The question posed by this Blog’s title doesn’t mean, How much mistreatment can you take before doubling over in pain and then exploding in a crazed rage while the Other Person says, “See how crazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Protect Your Energy
Just as we strive to protect and conserve earth’s energy resources, we can strive to protect and conserve our own. Become more aware of the impact of things, people, and activities on you and your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Developing Healthy Tolerance
Many of us are skilled at denying and discounting what hurts us. We may endure a particular situation, telling ourselves repeatedly it’s not that bad; we shouldn’t be so demanding; it’ll change any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boundaries
Sometimes, life and people seem to push and push. Because we are so used to pain, we may tell ourselves it doesn’t hurt. Because we are so used to people controlling and manipulating us, we may tell...
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Use Your Creativity in Saying When
Grace was the single parent of a seventeen-year-old son—Shawn. Shawn was charismatic, powerful, strong-willed, intelligent, and chemically dependent. Grace loved Shawn deeply. But she also felt...
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Being Right
Recovery is not about being right; it’s about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. That concept can be difficult for many of us if we have lived in systems that...
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Recognize Manipulations
Herein lies an irony: the person who is trying to manipulate you views you as having greater strength or power than he or she does. — George H. Green and Carolyn Cotter, Stop Being Manipulated George...
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