Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired? The simple H.A.L.T. system has been used by addiction-recovery circles for many, many years. Why? Because it works so very well in helping anyone regain emotional balance...

How do you SELF-SOOTHE when someone has really upset you? For some of us when we lose our emotional footing and feel hurt or unsafe we revert to old forms of emotional escapism as a form of SELF-SOOTH...

“I can live for two months on a good COMPLIMENT” Mark Twain confesses. When was the last time you gave and received what you consider a “good” COMPLIMENT? I have always been the type of person that fi...

Fast SEX is like fast FOOD it’s cheap and not good for our heart (on every level) as a long-term lifestyle habit. And … of course if we abstain from FOOD and SEX all together for too long ...

Do you remember Jiminy Cricket singing … When you wish upon a star … to offer hope to darling little Pinocchio? There are times in some of our lives where we can really relate to Pinocchio...

Conflicted About Conflict? “Peace is not the absence of CONFLICT, but the ability to cope with it.” Thank you Dorothy Thomas, I could not agree more. CONFLICT is a part of every growing and healthy re...

RELINQUISH … I just love this word, to me it sounds like a refreshing drink for a thirsty heart. It is the combination of letting go, gentle surrender and peace trickling back into our hearts al...

“One must be compassionate to oneself, before external compassion” The Dalai Lama reminds us. Compassion involves the art of DE-SHOULDING ourselves, then others. It is a universal truth that emotional...

What’s your WEAPON of choice? Work, social media, booze, over or under exercising or eating? Maybe it is drugs, misuse of pills, gambling or revenge spending? Some of us resort to games of sexual puni...

We are free to choose, however we are not free from the consequences of our choices. This universal paradox none of us can escape. KARMA in the Western world is too often confused with the concept of ...