Your Mindset is...Everything?
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett, novelist and playwright Think...
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- Oct 24
- 4 min
What Can We Do When Life Goes Wrong?
“May you always know you have my hand to hold.” — JJ Heller When my granddaughters were young, they delighted in having their meals...
- Sep 26
- 4 min
PULSE, Sensing the Sacred, and Connecting to the Cosmic Heartbeat of Compassion
The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...
- Sep 15
- 5 min
How Can We Journey Well Toward the Finish Line?
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Unless there is some time for being together psychologically -...
- Aug 26
- 6 min
Could The Problem Be a Stifled "Gift"?
“The meaning of life is to find your gift...." Pablo Picasso A couple of days ago, we shared one strength with each other in our...
- Aug 18
- 5 min
The Fourth Agreement
Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one...
- May 16
- 4 min
Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Opening To Our Darkness
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of...
- Jan 11
- 4 min
How To Hold A Cockroach And A Spider... And Everything
"Be curious, not judgmental." (perhaps falsely attributed to Walt Whitman, poet; endorsed by Ted Lasso, me, and my compassion circle)...
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Remember This - A Lesson In Compassion
"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings." Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift Yesterday, my...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Getting Close To Home
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes, author, ethicist, theologian My husband...
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
Fence Or A Welcome Sign?
Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate...
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
Me Do Dat Sometimes Too
“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”- Brené Brown. A remarkable scene unfolded...
- Jun 25, 2022
- 5 min
Go To The Gold Standard?
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? ― Alexandra Katehakis, psychotherapist Stock...
- Jun 9, 2022
- 5 min
Compassion Gone Right, A Lesson
“Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless...
- Jun 7, 2022
- 5 min
Compassion Gone Wrong, A Lesson
“Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the...
- Jun 6, 2022
- 4 min
Could You, Would You, Help A Russian?
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. Dr. Daniel Goleman, author and...
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
How to Stop The Hurt
“Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the...
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