Yesterday I talked about choosing joy. That's so easy to say - but it's not always easy to see how to do it. If you're laying in bed in pain, if you're struggling in a bad relationship, if you're in a thankless job that leaves you crushed every day - you can still have joy.…
I recently joined a couple of Facebook groups focused on specific health topics. My hope was to find help and encouragement for managing these difficult conditions, but what I've found instead is a whole bunch of people who are devastated and at their wits end. Most people do not understand how impossibly hard it is…
Brene Browns best seller, Daring Greatly, is one of about a dozen books I flip back and forth between. But today I realized several of these books I've chosen have a similar underlying theme - shame. Shame affects every one of us, and yet we choose to pretend it doesn't exist. It affects the way…
"Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality." It's a dangerous thing to give up hope altogether. Without hope, what reason do we have to live? But somehow we must also be careful to not have so much hope that we lose sight of the reality in which we live. As the…
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