What Is Your Name For Anger?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.... William Shakespear Anger is a difficult emotion,...
Four Myths about Anger
Anger is an emotion that has a certain mystique about it. It is blamed for many harmful events and problematic outcomes. When something...
Anger and Getting Kicked Off the Island
“I’m going to be voted off the island,” she wailed. Most of us know she is referring to the TV show, “Survivor.” On the show, team...
Humor: A Way to Deal With Stress
When you're stressed, laugh! Humor is considered one of the best ways to deal with stress. A little humor can break tension and establish...
Why Do Some Memories Stick? Merry-go-round-Memories
As a child, Tom loved Pecan Sandies and hot dogs. At a family picnic, he ate several hot dogs and many Pecan Sandies. That night, he had...
Templates Part Two: What You See is Not What You Get
In the last post, we started talking about templates and how they can run our lives. Templates rarely work alone; often they work in...
Living on Auto-Pilot
We all have templates by which we live. A template is a way of looking at our experiences through which we give meaning to our lives....
Teach Others How to Treat You
“I teach others how to treat me by what I allow.”
-Steven Coventry
We tell other people how they are all
Why We Need Feelings
Don began his story. “Growing up it was clear in my family that feelings were unacceptable. Repeatedly, I heard such statements as, “I...
When it Hurts too Much to Talk
When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin, Einstein said,“What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word,...