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Avoiding & Deflecting is a national epidemic. It's important to stop & consider how much that applies to you. Finding more courage to risk more truth telling with those that matter the most is crucial. This is a picture of Patrick, my best friend who died at 40. He faced… Continue Reading
Every family has strengths and weaknesses. It's dangerous to be either oblivious to how family affects you or hyper focused and resentful about one part of what happened. Both will erase the opportunity to be different from increased self-awareness. Families offer legacies to their children. One family with an enormous… Continue Reading
Three emotions that drive people to profound misery are fear, obligation and guilt. All three of these are easy to exaggerate. These three work in combination to suffocate the life out of ordinary people, like a python with a good grip. A healthy approach to guilt is to consider what… Continue Reading
I write this to honor the end of the military ban on Gays serving openly. The 2009 movie A Single Man is brilliantly acted by Colin Firth. He plays a gay man in the 1960's whose partner of 16 years dies in an accident and he considers taking his own… Continue Reading
Life is defined by the choices we make. Like a lunch counter menu with too many terrific options or an election where we end up voting between two uninspiring candidates; choices can be a tricky business to figure out. This is why lots of practice in making choices really matters.… Continue Reading
People get stuck in grief. People get stuck in affairs. People get stuck in resentments. People get stuck in depression. People get stuck in their fears. People get stuck in a lack of action. People get stuck in being self-absorbed. People get stuck in feeling life lacks meaning. Before you… Continue Reading
This is another of the great books in my life. It’s about chance, the power of choices and the courage to be found in living ordinary lives. It improves your relationship with yourself to think about all these things that are the stuff of life. His characters have depth and… Continue Reading
Thinking about ourselves in terms of decades is not merely a luxury only for the old. It improves our relationship with ourselves to gain some perspective about the decades when you're young. It's important to understand that while life can be very hard there is more to look forward to.… Continue Reading
I was lucky enough to work with women in prison and jail. I learned a lot about how hard it can be to maneuver a place for yourself in the world after making disastrous mistakes. Mistakes about a man's character, mistakes in judgement, mistakes in making impulsive decisions, mistakes born… Continue Reading
[caption id="attachment_1047" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Miramax[/caption] Like Uma Thurman, who is buried alive in Kill Bill 2, so many people squelch their life energy in too many 'shoulds'. 'Shoulds' can feed guilt, perfectionism, depression and codependency. 'Shoulds', rob relationships of too many necessary truths. I watch people struggle, because it seems… Continue Reading
