I love this quote so much because although I can’t always be the light, I can certainly choose to reflect it when others are. I tend to grumpiness if I don’t watch it!
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You Can Choose What You Do
I love the writings of Viktor Frankel so much because he clarified a great deal what choice means. This is another quote of his that resonates with me: The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms…
Inbox Question: If People Start to Dislike you for Skipping Gatherings, What Do You Do?
This can be hard to handle. What I advise is to go every once in a while. Be honest when you don’t want to go. My friends and family have long ago learned that if I don’t want to be there, my presence will not add a pleasant element to their get-together. I can be…
It’s Best to Avoid a Fight
I tell this to my students all the time. No reason to get into it, no reason to allow someone else to trigger you into fighting because of something they said. Whoever triggers you, controls you. Don’t becomes someone else’s puppet!
Stopping Unhealthy Family Patterns
I saw this quote from Enlightened Consciousness and it hit me like a ton of bricks how true it is. When you grow up in a toxic family it is hard sometimes to see the way to living differently, especially in regards to raising your own children. All I knew when I was starting out…
Peace Zine Out SEPTEMBER
This year has kicked my what-knows almost as hard as 2020. I almost stroked out, my brother died, and I wasn’t sure what/how work was going to look like for me. But I held on, and with the help of my husband and kids I made it through. I’m here, and back at work on…