Little Disturbances

When you spend time with friends, family or colleagues, do you focus on what you like about them? Or does that one annoying little thing they do dominate your awareness? Do you ever wonder why your attention lingers so long on negative stuff? Maybe it’s...

Opportunities for Healing

When our buttons get pushed, it’s because of the way we’re interpreting a situation. Our beliefs create our interpretations. If we didn’t have unhealed wounds, we wouldn’t get triggered. Our reactions show us what needs to be healed. If we...

Heal the Past

Negative experiences from the past need not keep you down in the present. Becoming conscious of the programs you run in your head is the first step to dropping the ones that don’t bring you joy or well-being. Acknowledge the beliefs that cause you suffering...

Use Your Filter

Filters help us eliminate pollution in the air and water. Mental filters are equally important in providing relief from divisive ideas and those who spread them. Because there’s so much negative noise from the news, social media and the internet, it’s more...

Out of the Shadow

The first step to healing a dysfunction is acknowledging it. Emerging from obliviousness or denial and realizing something is wrong can be frightening and even painful. It may feel as if the ground is falling out from under us. But a reckoning with reality is always...

See It to Heal It

Sexism, racism, narcissism, bigotry and demagoguery have long existed in societies everywhere. When these traits are exposed to the light of day it feels scary and uncomfortable, but it’s also the only time we can actually see and correct them. These attitudes...