Sometimes saying “No” is the most helpful thing we can do for ourselves and others. However, it can be one of the hardest words to say without secretly feeling guilty or mean. When I take on fe...

  When someone else disrespects us behaving in a HEARTLESS way and shuts us out, it is tempting to do the same to them. It’s helpful to remember they are simply fearful thus closing off to ...

SENSITIVITY “Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the SENSITIVE soul to tears,” shares Edgar Allan Poe. However, Confucius reminds us that … “Everything has beauty, bu...

SADNESS “Those who have felt the deepest grief, are best able to experience supreme happiness” Alexandre Dume Sitting with SADNESS requires great discipline, Emotional Fitness and heart wisdom. I find...

WHY LOVE? “WHY do we keep choosing to LOVE?” This is a question many of us ask ourselves sometimes when relationships become emotionally challenging and we reflect on our easier, single, less emotiona...

EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE It takes an EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE person to know one. We subconsciously attract others that know the same emotional dance steps that we do. I personally preferred to choose p...

WOUNDS The places in our personality where we tend to react from fear instead of respond from love exist within us all. Let’s remember today that these anxious and tender places can either be sh...

  “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” What an important reminder from Maya Angelou. Picking up tormenting WHAT IF thoughts when life gets challenging can be as addictive as picking up a dri...

  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 ...

  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 SEL...