Relationships

Consciousness/Thriving
Making Peace with Death & Dying

Why Being the Responsible One Can Leave You Feeling Empty

You are the one who remembers.Who follows through.Who handles things when they fall apart. Others rely on you. Things work because you are there. And yet, at times, you feel inexplicably tired or flat. Not burned out exactly. Just quietly…

Different Is Not Wrong: The Missing Skill in Most Relationships

At the heart of every relationship is a simple and often challenging truth: the other person is not you. They do not think like you, perceive the world like you, or experience life through your nervous system. They are living inside an entirely…
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Keeping The Doors Of Love Open In Your Relationship

Does your relationship provide a safe emotional environment for you both? Are you free to be who you are? Or, do you edit yourself around your partner to avoid negative reactions? Do you walk on eggshells around each other? I…
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How to Handle Family Dynamics Around a Dying Loved One

Families can be complicated, to say the least. When they are beautifully loving and caring, it's one of God's most delightful gifts. But often, when the well-being of a critically-ill loved one is involved, tensions can flare. We don't all love…

Do You Know the 6 People in Your Marriage?

Have you ever noticed that you and your partner keep having essentially the same fight over and over again? No matter what the topic, whenever you get into an argument, does it always seems to  turn out the same way? That’s usually because…
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Celebrating Oneness in Diversity

Do you and your partner frequently battle over who is "right" and who is "wrong?" If so, battles will be won, but a war will rage on. Right/wrong thinking makes a relationship an ongoing power struggle. It is the territory of two ego personalities…
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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…
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3 Truths: Mine, Yours, and Empirical Reality

Two of the biggest mistakes we make in figuring out what is going on in our lives are:   to assume that our perceptions of reality match empirical reality.    to assume that anyone who disagrees with us is simply…
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When a Difference of Opinion Threatens a Friendship

What happens when you have a significant difference of opinion with someone you care deeply about? How do you evaluate what is going on? How do you treat each other? What kind of outcome can you expect? 20/20 hindsight gives us a much…
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Love: Lighting Each Other Up Inside

  Years ago, I remember being disturbed by my spiritual teacher, John-Roger, describing love as activating or stimulating that place inside of each other where love resides. It seemed so unromantic. I had been raised to believe in the…