The Ukraine Crisis and You Plus One Crucial Step

This past week has been traumatic for the world as we watched Russia invade Ukraine. I don’t know about you, but it has been heart-wrenching. Perhaps like many, you may be feeling helpless and not know what to do.

While there are many places to send money, I also believe that taking a good...

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Actualizing your dreams is not an indulgence. It gives you your life force and the energy of life. dreams life purpose passions

I am on a mission. One of my favorite things ever is helping people reconnect to themselves deeply and rediscovering their dreams and passions in life.

Taking action on our dreams gives us our life force. It brings the juice back to life. It gives us purpose and meaning.

But life challenges can...

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Burned Out? How did I get here and what do I do? anxiety burnout stress

I see people all the time who are fried and burned out. I have known for a long time that this is not the way life is supposed to be.

The systems in our culture are creating burnout. Our lives are busy busy busy and schools and the workplace are a primary focus for most people to the point that...

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One big reason why you are stuck... feelings

One major reason I see clients and students stuck is that we were not taught to do a daily internal check-in. Why does this matter? Without an internal check-in, we don’t really know what the heck is really going on inside of us.

The problem is that we think we do. When I bring people into...

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Friendship and Love friendship relationship

Last week, on my social media channels, I talked about Friendship. Friendships can feed the soul.

Valentines Day was yesterday and our culture is very couple centric. If Valentines Day is a day about love... why don’t we emphasize that friendships are as valuable as any other relationship....

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Relationship Revive couples counseling marriage relationship

I’ve been a psychotherapist for 30 years and have worked with couples all along the way. Never before have I seen couples going through so much pressure as they have in the past 2 1/2 years.

Yes, I have been with couples who have struggled and have massive breakdowns and challenges. But...

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Your feelings are screaming at you! eq feelings

One of the main things I see in our culture is that a lot of what we learned about how to find more peace or happiness is actually making us more unhappy and the opposite of peace. As you may have seen in my previous emails, EQ is the education we needed the most and didn’t get. So I am...

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Why “Just Think Positive” can be harmful and why the TRUTH is better feelings

Here is a dash of EQ (emotional intelligence), the education we needed the most and didn’t get.

One of the statements I have heard over the years is “I am just going to think positive", or “I am just going to choose a positive feeling” or "I don’t want to think...

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