You spend a lot of time on what you consider to be “improving yourself.” Perhaps you’ve worked hard to complete a degree or training program. In your work, maybe there’s required professional development that you do to stay current in your field. In your personal life, you might practice a long time to master a […]
Traumatic Growth: How Trauma can Transform and Inspire
Trauma is epidemic in our day and time as we are now globally connected through technology. A 24-hour cable news cycle inundates us with disasters of every type. People suffer accidents, human-made and natural. Neighbors and family members treat each other outrageously. Tragedy seems to strike randomly and, too often, in everyday places. Do you […]
The Dance of the Big Hunger
In his lovely book, “A Mantis Carroll,” Laurens Van der Post, tells us about the intersection between the ancient and the modern. Surprisingly, the tale reveals that man’s distant ancestors, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, shared a search for meaning expressed through the dance of the Big Hunger. One lone Bushman, “parachuted” by an accident […]
Conflict: A Door to Greater Intimacy
The secret to a good partnership, any partnership, be it a marriage, an enduring lifelong friendship or a business partnership, is to capture the opportunity for greater understanding through the door of conflict. My thirty-year-old son told me the other day, “Relationships are hard, Mom. While you and Dad had conflict in your relationship and […]
Perfection is the Open Heart
Isn’t it amazing that you can meet a person, a perfect stranger, and very quickly feel a connection? When I saw my husband for the first time, 38 years ago, on the Orient Express, I was backpacking with my roommate from college. We were en route to Greece, and he was backpacking on his way […]