Happy words like HOLIDAYS, birthday, anniversary and Christmas for most people bring up feelings of relief and joy, not angst and sadness. The walking wounded amongst us however, often hide in being h...

Sometimes our problem is we expect love affairs to always feel good; they don’t. Let’s remember today to be GENTLE with each other if our love life is experiencing growing pains? There is ...

“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, but not everyo...

“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 emotionally compli...

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 partners in my younger ye...

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 shamed as...

“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 drink or d...

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...