A Month of Mays: May We Forgive Bad Parenting
Tomorrow being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect opportunity to take a look at the topic of parenting. We all have our own ideas about what is good parenting and bad parenting. As a parent myself, I really struggled to meet my own standards of good parenting, and I made...
A Month of Mays: May Anger Guide Us To Serenity
You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle. When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice. So, when...
A Month of Mays: May We Accept Our Hypocrisy
Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone and thought to yourself, “I could throw those words right back in your face!”? Or maybe, when you were a child, did an adult scold you for something that they were just as guilty of doing? And now, be honest....
When Being a Victim Creates More Victims
Tell me if you recognize this situation. Someone in your life does something that makes you feel hurt, so you tell that person how you feel. All you want is an apology, but what you get instead is an excuse, maybe even an accusation that it was really your...
Don’t Underestimate Your Survival Instinct
***NOTE*** I believe our survival instinct and what people call “ego” are one and the same. I’m choosing to use the phrase “survival instinct” because people have such a negative connotation of the word “ego”. I didn’t want the repulsion of the word to influence your understanding of my...
Write Down Your Emotions
If you’ve never journaled before, the place to start is writing down every emotion you notice within yourself. Most of us have emotions that we’ve tucked away, too afraid to look at them. It might be because we feel guilty about harboring these emotions. We might believe we don’t...