Steps Toward a Rich and Meaningful Life 🌱
Many years ago I received the “Instructions For Life” by the Dalai Lama in an email from a very dear friend. Whether or not you embrace the teachings of the Dalai Lama, these "Instructions For Life" seem very universal to me; and something we can all benefit from...
The Gift of Extending Empathy – Brené Brown’s Short Video 🎁
Let’s talk a little bit about empathy today. Empathy means fully embracing the feelings of another. What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic...
Why Are Boundaries Important? 📘
If your life is filled with discord and you don’t feel that others respect you, it’s time to set your boundaries. Each of us experiences our reality in four ways: Body– what we look like; Thinking– how we give meaning to incoming data; Feelings– our emotional...
What Are Boundaries and How Do they Work? ❇️
If your life is filled with more of what you don’t want and not enough of what you do want, it’s time to set your boundaries. Boundaries define a person’s sense of Self, who you believe you are as an individual. Setting boundaries makes others feel safe around you and...
I Forgive You… or do I, really? 💗
Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which someone who was offended, affronted or otherwise hurt or harmed in some way by someone, changes their feelings and attitude regarding the offense or the affront, and the offender. The most important part of...
How to Receive an Apology
For most partners, it is equally difficult and uncomfortable to receive an apology as it is to offer an apology! Offering and receiving apologies is an art and requires learning a few simple skills and practicing those skills often. 8 Simple Steps to Receive an...
How to Offer an Apology
For most of us, offering an apology feels awkward or uncomfortable. For one thing, we don’t have a lot of practice. For another thing, the concept of apologizing is often associated with being “bad” or “wrong.” Does this concept match for you? I invite you to consider...
Your Real Apology is an Act of Loving Kindness
In the course of your relationship, you and your partner will occasionally do or say something or not do or say something that will cause each other hurt. The very act of apologizing is an essential relationship success skill that calls on both partners to offer and...
My Top 10 Tips to help you say what you mean and mean what you say.
Most of us know how to speak. Many of us have never learned how to communicate. Recognize that clear, accurate and understandable verbal and non-verbal language is essential for a successful, happy and lasting marriage. Top 10 Tips to Communicate Clearly and...
How r-e-a-d-y are you to live your best love-life with your partner?
We take ourselves with us wherever we go…especially into love relationships. A successful, committed relationship depends on you being ready… Physically Emotionally Financially Legally Spiritually … to live the life that you love with the love of your life and have...
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