6 Ways to Say ‘Yes’ to Your Life

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?" --Hillel Learn to embrace the fullness of life. This calls us to bear personal responsibility and accountability for…

When Loved Ones Aren’t Very Loving

Do you dread gathering with your family and friends for holidays, weddings, funerals and other events? Or have you been blessed with a truly loving and nurturing family? Dysfunctional childhood and family dynamics have a way resurfacing and…

How Well Do You Face the Trials and Tribulations of Your Life?

It really is what's inside that counts. It isn't so much what happens to you that determines the quality of your life. Rather, it is how well you deal with what happens. The quality of our inner experience matters far more than how we measure…
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Is Your God Too Small?

Do you experience God? Or, is God a concept to you? Or, perhaps God is not something that matters to you.  Some people worship very small gods like the god of opinion or the god of money, power, status, and success. Some relate to…

Are You Good Enough?

The short answer is “Yes!” But the real problem is the question itself. When we worry about whether we are good enough we are buckling ourselves at the knees over a perceived flaw rather than standing tall in the fullness of our being.  This…

Do You Play the Victim in Your Life?

Do you live at the cause or at the effect of your own life? Do you think what you experience is a response to other people and external events? Or do you see how you create, promote, and allow what happens to you? When we play the victim,…

5 Keys to Living from the Inside Out

Are you living at the cause or the effect of what is happening in your life? Are you living from the outside in or the inside out? Is your life a series of reactions to external events and the beliefs and behaviors of others? Or, do you live…

Do You Know How Powerful Your Thoughts Are?

In the theater of your mind is a multi-dimensional consciousness.Your perception of each new experience is processed through the filter of your responses to similar experiences in the past. Neuroscientists have discovered that repetitive thoughts…

Leaving the Past Behind

Are you keeping your past alive in the present? Or have you harvested its lessons and learned from it? We all have scars from our past. But what do we do with them now? That’s a really important question. In mentoring clients, I typically…

What’s Wrong with Right/Wrong Thinking?

  Until we become aware of how our internal data processing determines the reality we perceive, we think we are reacting to an external reality rather than determining what that reality appears to be For most of us, our socialization…

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