Elizabeth struggles with procrastination. She just puts things off until the deadline looms so near that she has no choice but to take action. This causes stress but, she admits, it is habit and it’s her normal way of operating. Lydia struggles with completing her homework. She thinks it’s dumb. She hates doing it. It [...]
There is a place where you find yourself struggling, complaining and wishing things were different. You sense that you are a round peg trying desperately to fit into a square hole. You are stressed out, angry and frustrated. You know this place. We’ve all been there. Struggle is a clear message that you are resisting [...]
We all have had those periods of time when we just don’t want to do anything. We are tired of pushing, trying, working and we just want to stop and do nothing for awhile. I know I have been in this place! There are moments when you need a break – even just a break [...]
When I was a teenager, I used a saying to help me to make decisions: When in doubt, do without. Little did I know at the time that I was accessing my intuition and my own sense of integrity. ‘Doubt’ is that little still voice of wisdom telling you that something isn’t quite right. Intellectually, [...]
My 14-year old son was very angry yesterday. Things just were not going the was he had envisioned in his head and, when I picked him up from football practice to take him to his next activity, he was angry. He had ideas in his mind about how the evening would go. He had, in [...]
