by Merci Gracia | Feb 23, 2021 | Handling Emotions, Healing
Each of us has a well of accumulated disappointment and hurt inside of us that is waiting to be healed. When part of it rises to the surface of our awareness, it’s an opportunity to heal it. Because it’s uncomfortable, we often repress it, seek distraction...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 29, 2020 | Communicate lovingly, Handling Emotions
Recurring issues in our relationships are almost always the result of dovetailing wounds from childhood. We mistakenly think others are the cause of our feelings, when in fact, they’re just activating old pain. For example, as children, Jane felt unheard and...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 15, 2020 | Handling Emotions
This experience of self-isolation can bring up a plethora of emotions. Our relationships are being tested as as we spend enormous amounts of time together. While some of us are still working and adhering more to regular schedules, others have had their lives turned...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 1, 2020 | Handling Emotions
Sometimes people just need to vent and complain. While it’s tempting to dig into our own experience and offer advice or help them come up with a solution, this isn’t usually what is sought after. Most often, they just want to have someone there, while they...
by Merci Gracia | Dec 14, 2019 | Handling Emotions
Life doesn’t always seem fair or go the way we think it should. As frustrating and infuriating as this can be, we can’t ever really know how things will turn out. Seemingly bad things often prove to be beneficial. The best course of action when life...
by Merci Gracia | Aug 16, 2019 | Grateful, Gratitude, Handling Emotions
Cultivating gratitude is an effortless way to improve our quality of life. Our dominant thoughts, emotions and feelings attract people, places and things that match our energy. The external details of our lives aren’t actually responsible for the way we feel....