“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...
Food And Sex
FOOD AND SEX “FOOD is like SEX, when you abstain even the worst stuff begins to look good” shares Beth McAllister … When FOOD and SEX mean everything or nothing in our lives, this is an alarm to let u...
Conflict
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
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 he...
Should
SHOULD “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 em...
Mass Distraction
WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION 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 re...
Karma
KARMA 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 conce...
Armour
ARMOUR “”””””””””””””””q“It’s a disservice to yourself and humanity to pretend there are no chinks in yo...
Emotional Seasons
What’s a SEASON? Twelve weeks, approximately 90 DAYS give or take. It makes sense to me that our dear universal parents, Mother Nature and Father Time, prefer a whole SEASON to gift us with the...
Sibling Rivalry
SIBLING RIVALRY is a survival mechanism that becomes destructive when love is scarce so fear reigns within our tribe of origin. Humans will fight SIBLINGS for crumbs of love and respect, as bab...