"Being happy is what virtually everyone says they want,” award-winning researcher and author, Dawson Church wrote in his book, Genie in Your Genes. “Even miserable people seem to be happy being miserable. Many human...
Many of the negative emotions we experience as humans are as a result of living in a separated reality. This separated reality happens when we divide our life into “past” and “future” and let the separated parts rule the...
I have worked with over 1500 people, teaching them skills to handle life’s challenges.
One concept I talk about is that stress is not an emotion; it is the physiological chaos that results from experiencing a negative/depleting emotion in...
Brené Brown is an American researcher on shame, vulnerability, and leadership. In her book, Daring Greatly, she shared an article that she had written for the Houston Chronicle highlighting how our behaviours (in this case,...
It is a sad week. A friend of mine passed away from brain cancer, one day after her 44th birthday.
I’ve heard people talk about losing someone they love when they are “too young to die” and how it affects them. With the...
When I was 13, I remember sitting slumped on the bench in front of our organ, playing what I thought was a mournful tune that I had learned in music class in school. (It was actually Jolly Old Saint Nicholas…don’t ask me why a...
A new year typically brings thoughts of new goals, new beginnings, new adventures, new habits, new ways of living life.
Why do we do this?
The aim is to transform our lives. We want to make our lives better, brighter, easier. We want to be a...
It’s winter.
Not my favourite season. I mean, there isn’t much to be joyful about. It’s so long. So dark. So cold.
And then there’s the snow. Usually a lot. It makes (nearly) everything more difficult. Ugh.
I sometimes feel...
I am on an email list. Every day, I receive an email from Father Richard Rohr. He has so much good stuff to say and he sometimes shares some stuff from other authors, speakers, and thought-leaders. This email really struck a cord in...
Have you ever watched a scary or suspenseful part in a movie while the tv is muted? The experience is very different; it is not scary or suspenseful at all. The scene can actually become rather humorous.
The film industry knows that background...
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