Once again, our headlines are filled with the story of the tragic shooting and multiple deaths in Uvalde, TX. For days the news headlines have reported on the horrific details of this tragedy. Podcasts, newscasts, journals and social media speak of the ways to make such tragedies something that never happens again. Yet here we […]
How Are You at Significant Relationships?
Neuroscience research tells us we are social animals. Our relationships nurture and even sustain our lives. They provide comfort, meaning, motivation to connect, share, enjoy and with a few very special relationships, to experience deep love. When people have few or even no significant relationships, they can be extremely depressed, withdrawn, unmotivated, their physical as […]
In Light of the Latest Election Do We Assess or Judge?
I believe it is our job as human beings to figure out our mission and decide how we are going to conduct ourselves in the world as it relates to our family, our friends, our colleagues, our communities, our region, state, country. We do this on a moment-by-moment basis, often without even realizing the work […]
The Process of Falling Out of Love
In my last two blogs I invited my readers to consider some of the properties and principles of love, especially how the pandemic has impacted our experiences of love given all the many anxieties and stresses we’ve been experiencing. We have needed to feel loved and be able to give love more than ever during […]
Invitation to Explore Some Specifics of Love
My blog last week invited readers to take a few minutes to consider the subject of love, especially in light of a letter attributed to Albert Einstein. I noted and wanted to reiterate that the pandemic and the resulting isolation most of us have experienced has impacted our relationships, especially those involving some form of […]
Reflections about Love Attributed to Einstein
Recently a friend shared an article entitled Einstein Letter to His Daughter on the Universal Force of Love. The article is very touching and one I think readers might enjoy too. And this sparked for me many questions about love: what is it, when and how is it experienced, why do we crave being in […]
Why We Need to Make Mistakes
Can you recall a recent mistake you made? How did it make you feel? Guilty? Incompetent? Ashamed? I have a very dear friend who struggled after he hired someone for a job in his newly-formed organization and discovered within the first two weeks that this person was not meeting expectations and clearly was not somebody […]
Clarification about How the Amygdala Impacts Behavior
In my last blog I shared some of my thoughts about why Will Smith behaved as he did at the Oscars, suggesting his amygdala hijacked his behavior, a concept proposed by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence. As I shared my thoughts with friends and colleagues, I received mostly strong opinions that a person […]
Viewing Will Smith’s Oscar’s Assault through a Trauma Lens
A friend was appalled when I shared that I was writing a blog describing my trauma theory that might explain Will Smith’s violent outburst and assault on Chris Rock at the Oscar’s on March 27th. He couldn’t believe I was going to excuse his violent behaviors because it was somehow related to childhood trauma. He […]
Are You Good at Prioritizing?
Recently I had a conversation with a friend about the struggles we have prioritizing our lives. It seems like there are so many needs, issues, demands for our time and energy by those around us – kids, family, work, responsibilities around our homes, in groups we are a part of, in meeting our own needs, to […]
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