For many people, myself included, giving is much easier than receiving - whether it is compliments, gifts, help, advice, or anything like that. Why?
I feel better when I am giving rather than receiving. Receiving makes me feel uncomfortable....
I’m going to be straight up honest with you, these weekly blogs that I send out to my subscribers are not always a pleasure to write. I have difficulty coming up with topics to write about. (So, if anyone of you have a suggestion, please...
I like to be efficient. I like to get things done fast…once I get those things started, LOL.
Shovelling the driveway, for some reason, is a timed event.
Making supper is a race to see how fast I can make the food and get dishes done at the...
If you are reading this blog, or any blog from The Stress Experts, you are probably interested in learning how to conquer your stress…or you’re interested in learning how to decrease feelings of anxiety, anger, worry, fear and the...
"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...
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