Should I still be grieving?
Grief has made another appearance. I have been noticing that almost every time I talk about my mother-in-law I feel like I could start to cry. I know what you may be thinking, it’s another case of an annoying in-law. Well, my mother-in-law was far from annoying. Yep,...
Can you be too positive?
A good friend of mine called the other day. She was feeling overwhelmed by finances and wanted to discuss her options with me. As soon as she started talking I could instantly feel how heightened her energy was. I simply listened, allowing her...
The Gratitude Attitude
The other day I was talking with a client about gratitude. We went through an exercise designed to promote thinking about what she was grateful for. She expressed how she typically resisted gratitude practices because she didn’t like to search for things to be...
Is there a kink in your hose?
How do you handle difficult emotions? Do you allow yourself to feel them, sit with them, move through them or do you ignore them and hope they will go away? Maybe you replace them with positive thoughts? I used to try and hide from mine, particularly when I was in my...
Release the need for perfection . . .
Release the need for perfection. Why? I thought perfection kept me safe. During my fertility struggle, I was striving for perfection, for my happily ever after – the husband, the white picket fence, the 2.5 kids. Each month I was not pregnant my internal negative...
Do you expect or accept?
I was not a very nice wife the other day. I apologized and we talked it out, but it was still bothering me. I decided to write about it, in order to process it. It was Sunday morning and I ran to the store to pick up a couple of items we were missing to make...