BEGINNINGS Sometimes we deliberately avoid new BEGINNINGS because what we are really trying to do is to intercept and avoid any potential endings. Sound familiar? If we want to really live, we have go...

AUTHENTIC APOLOGY When our heart is deeply wounded, an AUTHENTIC APOLOGY is like an antibiotic. An insincere apology is like rubbing salt into the wound and can be almost as much of an insult as the u...

ALTER We are free to choose, however, we are not free from the consequences of our choices. This is a universal paradox none of us can escape. The choices we make in our everyday lives are either fuel...

CONNECTION For a basic heart CONNECTION with a loved one to survive busy daily life the relationship requires a minimum of four gentle physical forms of touch per day. To maintain a healthy heart CONN...

CHARACTER “You’ve got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself” Now that takes a courageous CHARACTER! To risk rejection in order to honour our truth. Iyanla Vanzant reminds us that even thou...

A HAPPY PLACE Avoiding UNHAPPINESS is not the road to HAPPINESS. Where is the HAPPY PLACE you go to when you are UNHAPPY? Avoiding owning our UNHAPPINESS and sitting with it so we can deal with it sim...

DISAPPOINTMENT “We must accept finite DISAPOINTMENT but never lose infinite hope” Martin Luther King shares a tough unavoidable Emotional Fitness workout for us all. DISAPPOINTMENT is a heavy weight t...

DENIAL Those of us inexperienced at following our bliss hang onto our DENIAL instead for dear life. DENIAL protects open-heart wounds effectively like a bandage. DENIAL enables many of us to survive w...

DANGER “The DANGER always exists for those who are afraid of it.” George Bernard Shaw is one of my all time favourite wordsmiths because of wise and succinct sentences like this quote above. Here he s...

COMPARISON “COMPARISON is the thief of joy”. Really? I’m not so sure. Franklin Roosevelt’s observation about this habit only tells half of the story in my view, throwing the baby out with the bath wat...