Emotional Stuffers

Emotional Stuffers

Are You a Stuffer? Emotional stuffers are people who spend their entire life trying to push their emotions aside and truck through life in order to keep up with the demands of expectations both self-imposed and placed on them by others. They learned these skills...
The Danger of Assumption and Judgment

The Danger of Assumption and Judgment

Bashing Without Context In the past week I witnessed some very interesting behavior between adults in a Facebook group who responded vehemently to something that was posted.  A mother had posted her concern for a TED Talk that was shown in her child’s middle school...
Simplicity

Simplicity

Importance of Noticing This past week I was in Grants Pass Oregon camping on a beautiful property that our long-time friends have owned.  We have been visiting them in Grant’s Pass for the past 30 years.  There’s just something amazing about this small town.  The...
How To Find Joy and Happiness

How To Find Joy and Happiness

But I’m Just Too Busy Life is Busy.  I get it!  You’re running around trying to manage life or the lives of your kids, parents, or others and sometimes it’s just all overwhelming.  Yet when clients come to me with this question and want the miracle answer or nugget of...
Shame Resilience and Self-Compassion

Shame Resilience and Self-Compassion

I’m Practicing Self-Compassion It’s been seven and a half months since my mountain biking accident.  It’s embedded in my memory as a day that I’ll never forget, much like other huge events that I can still completely place myself in.  I know exactly what I was...