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It's challenging to face difficult emotions, but working with them allows growth and self-awareness

A powerful source of guidance, meaning, motivation, and fulfillment lies within each of us but is often overlooked and misunderstood....

Our stress mindset - personal beliefs about stress - determines whether we are overwhelmed or are empowered by stressful events. We can learn to shift to a positive mindset about stress and use specific techniques to produce a helpful stress response that builds resilience for the future..

Developing and using your unique natural strengths can help you navigate the path of personal growth in midlife.

Whole Messages are far more likely to get the results you’re requesting than using language that blames, criticizes, exaggerates, demands, makes value judgments, and is focused on what the other person did.

Are we, in the U.S. and other Western nations, more divided as a people than ever before? And what can we do about it?

Carl Jung believed that becoming aware of the Shadow and accepting it as an integral part of us is essential to becoming whole individuals.

Empathy is essential to having strong, meaningful relationships, and empathy skills can be learned.

What I've learned about True Fun and how to attract more of it into my life!

The cognitive bias that harms relationships and how to overcome it

November’s post is a continuation of the month’s theme of respectful disagreement . In the last newsletter I gave some points for...

Among the several dictionary definitions of sacred are “dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity” and “worthy of...

Stories are how humans make sense, or meaning, of things that happen, how the world is, and how we should behave. We are immersed in...

Last month I wrote about the specific challenges of midlife and explained that the anxiety, confusion, depression and other uncomfortable...

The term “midlife crisis” has many negative (or humorous) connotations, so please allow me to define what it means in my work: it’s the...

Mental fitness skills can effectively combat the negative effects of chronic stress

To follow up on my last blog post about healthy friendships (3/15/24) I’d like to share some thoughts and suggestions for practical ways...

Knowing and interacting with lots of people, in person and online, gives the appearance that we’re very connected. Yet most of us do not...

Many recent studies show that meaning, rather than happiness, is essential to a fulfilling life. We don’t really need science to show us...

Do you notice that some conversations and interactions feel rich and satisfying, and others are uninspiring and forgettable? It doesn’t...