Our Body

  Are you good friends with your BODY or unhappy with your current relationship with it? How do you feel about your BODY? Has it let you down often, or do you let it down often? Those among us wh...

Holidays

  Happy words like HOLIDAYS, birthday and Christmas for most people bring up feelings of relief and joy, not angst and sadness. However, for some of us HOLIDAYS can be times when emotional trigge...

Assertive

  ASSERTIVNESS is not what you do, it is a discipline and maturity that creates who and how you are. When we are aggressive we shame others. When we are submissive we shame ourselves. When we are...

Worry

  Fear looks back, WORRY looks down, love looks up and smiles. Of course there will always be dilemmas in life that need our attention. However, habitual WORRY is driven by fear-based thought. Wh...

Walls

  Her heart was a secret and beautiful garden, but the walls were very high, too high for anyone else to enter and enjoy with her. She had trapped herself. Sound like anyone you know? One of our ...

Separation

  Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you. If arguments, conflict, worry, disappointment and fear have been visiting our lives we can take heart as we are still on track. A matc...

Sunday Sabotage

  Some of us use any form of emotional sedation we can on SUNDAYS. Maybe we need to quell the anxiety of either too much alone, couple or family time during the weekend hitting emotional overload...

Secrets

  We are only as sick as the SECRETS we keep. This is a mantra reminding us that the shame in keeping SECRETS long term will make us sick. These words are repeated often to those like me recoveri...

Instant Gratification

  “INSTANT GRATIFICATION takes too long.” I couldn’t agree more. Fellow emotionally transparent addict and alcoholic Carrie Fisher sums up the problem with INSTANT GRATIFICATION … Just beautifull...

Vulnerable

  I am a proud and grateful introvert, so if I am honest my greatest fear has never been being alone, that is actually easier for me than being with others. My greatest fear has been about being ...