How to: become whole! Facing reality is the first step to growth. Examine your life so you can see what is working, what is not, and what needs to go. To grow, requires a humble heart. It takes honest work like removing a rose colored pair of glasses to admit,...
How do you pull up the dead roots in your life? This past summer, I visited my brother and his wife at their lake house. My brother, Bill, was in need of getting a tree out of their yard, henceforth, this heavy stump. As we visited, my brother sawed one root away, and...
How do I face an empty nest? Your last child flew the nest, another is off to college and one married this past summer. Now you wonder, how in the world can I do this? An empty house without kids? No more showers running in the wee hours of the morning nor phones...
How do you not withdraw? Do you excuse or escape by withdrawing? You’re sitting at a round table with women. Conversations are going on around you, but you don’t feel important enough to be invited into the talk and/or choose to speak up. You choose to take the road...
What is the first step toward change? You recognize and admit that you can’t stay like you are. You want more from life. You want more than the pain of just existing! You know you were made for more. Yet self doubt sneaks in. Yet, you’re ready to step,...
How do you learn from the pain of life? Stop. It’s opposite than what we think. Stop doing. Stop running. Stop ruminating. Stop. Can you, stop? Once upon a time, that was very hard for me. I ran away from it and hid behind doing and doing and more doing. Until, my...
