Damaged people damage people…

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“Damaged people damage people.” Marianne Williamson Does this sentence make sense to you? Have you ever been in a room full of negative people and try as you may, they soon coat you with their negativity? What is it about human nature that we tend to stick around toxic people in hopes of changing them?… [Continue Reading]

Flying or pelted?

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What’s the difference between a stunt plane driver in gleeful free-falls and that same pilot in that same plane being thrown around by a tornado? Give up? The difference is Personal Choice! The next time you feel like you’re in a downward spiral, ask yourself this question: Am I an incredible Stunt Pilot and these… [Continue Reading]

Hello friend, I honor your internal war….

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  Emerson, “Whenever you meet anyone, remember they are going through a great war”. If we could only keep this statement in mind when we rush to judge people. We interact, draw conclusions and we act as if those conclusions were actual fact. We create arguments around the made up facts. We play judge and… [Continue Reading]

What would you do?

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Answer me, oh my love, just what sin have I been guilty of? Won’t you tell me where I’ve lost your love? Please answer me sweetheart….so goes the first verse of an old song by Nat King Cole. I grew up with this song….I can hear my father crooning the words along with the radio… [Continue Reading]

De-friending fear…

online drama via living.msn

  Oh how Facebook has reduced us to junior high feelings all over again. Those feelings weren’t that great the first time around. Now they are possibly worse because, on top of the same old teenage insecurities floating to the surface we have that feeling that OMG, really, I am a grown adult and am… [Continue Reading]

Is your EXCUSE bigger than your JOY?

depression via Jeffrey BlacklerAlamy

  I was chatting with a dear friend a while back and I heard myself say that sometimes people’s excuses are bigger than their Joy. Wow, I thought, that’s good… What do I mean by that simple sentence? I mean that some people like to wallow on the “poor me” side of the street. The… [Continue Reading]

Fair fight…..if only!

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Fair fight…..if only! Yes, if only all of our fights could be fair and above the belt. That’s so hard to do though, isn’t it? We feel attacked and we strike back. It’s that old fight or flight, right? I can either run away or I can slam you right back. Are there other choices?… [Continue Reading]

Follow the leader….

hiker via peakplanet

Follow the leader…. I have always liked to be the leader, to be the big dog, to set the example.  I have been this way for my entire life. During my climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro I had to learn to accept that I could not be the leader.  Altitude sickness affected my climb from the… [Continue Reading]

Take your OWN pulse…

check your pulse via webmd

Have you ever embarked on a training regimen where you were required to stop every so often to take your pulse? Why do you think the trainer or teacher makes you do this? Well…it’s a heart health thing, right? There are ranges of the pulse that are healthy and ranges that are not. When your… [Continue Reading]

Am I fired?

Truth-is-Within-You via tinaferguson.com

A few weeks ago I received an email from someone I barely knew regarding my classes in which she has never attended. Her information came from some of those who had taken my class. These people had some sensitive nerves touched and decided their pain was my fault! The email was mean spirited and made accusations that… [Continue Reading]