Consciousness/Thriving

Stress and Family: Spending Holidays With ‘Loved Ones’ Who Aren’t Very Nice to You

Below the surface of many family holiday gatherings are mini dramas playing out, contemporary grudges and resentments and unresolved childhood issues. Nothing hurts with such emotional depth as these familial battles. For the tender-hearted,…

Tips for Dealing With Other People’s Opinions

They say opinions are like noses -- everyone has one. Whether you like it or not, people have opinions about you. What you do with those opinions is entirely up to you. Consider a coaching client of mine who had a really tough time dealing…

Why You Should Stop Making Snap Judgments

Dictionaries specify that the word "judgment" refers to the process of forming an opinion after careful consideration. Judgments have their place in a court of law where, by social agreement, authority is granted to a judge or jury to determine…

When Friends Don’t See Eye-to-Eye

Did you ever have a really good friendship where everything was just rolling along until one day you hit an impasse that you couldn't seem to get past? I've been hearing a lot of stories like this lately and have had my fair share as well. So…

Generosity or Greed — It’s a Matter of Choice

"There is a struggle that is more interesting than pleasure or ego satisfaction... There is something far more interesting than what money can buy." -- Jacob Needleman I find it fascinating that 92 percent of Americans claim belief in God yet…

What Is Karma and How Does it Work?

The term "karma" is often used with great casualness, with little understanding of its profundity. People dismissively say "it's my karma," suggesting that their destiny or fate is merely the luck or bad fortune of the draw. This use of the…

Karma, Karma Everywhere

Sometimes, I walk through this world and just marvel at the fact that we are all souls with individualized karmic agendas. Our lives and stories are woven together in a perfect complexity of clearing our individual and collective karmic accruals.…

Surviving Technical Support

Over the past week, I have spent more than 15 hours on the phone with technical support for Apple, Time Warner Cable and Microsoft. I've spoken to about 30 different people in the U.S., India and the Philippines, and I have lost my mind on several…

How’s Your Existential Maturity?

Existential maturity (is) a kind of peaceful acceptance of mortality and of the relationship between generations of life that mitigates the pain of our transience by allowing an understanding of how we can die without entirely ceasing to exist. --…

5 Keys to Cutting Your Mental and Emotional Umbilical Cord

Do you feel like you are 5 years old again when you visit with your family? Do you feel like everything is the same somehow? Have you maintained the same role in relationship to your family throughout your life? The shining star? The black sheep?…

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