“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” -Jim Rohn The wish to seek and have a deep sense of family connection and commitment is universal. Ask people what is most important to them and their first answer is always the […]
Archives for January 2012
The Wrong Kind of Praise
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Although this research about the perils of too much praise on children’s learning is not new, it is so important […]
Confronting the Fear of Change
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.” -John Steinbeck I have loved this quote for thirty years and a few others like it. I think it’s essential to have a touchstone to hold onto during times of rapid and radical change. Given how easy it is, in the face […]
Emotional Self-Healing for Couples and Families
“Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with […]
Happy Families Have Feelings Too…
“Feelings are what connect us to life and to one another. To be able to feel is one of the extraordinary gifts of humanity. To neither suppress our feelings nor be caught by them but to withstand them, that is the art.” […]
Book signing, Presentation in Ventura
Bank of Books Bookstore 748 E. Main St. Ventura, CA Saturday, January 14, 2-3 PM How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family Don MacMannis, Ph.D., and Debra Manchester MacMannis, M.S.W., will be doing a book signing for How’s Your Family Really Doing? 10 Keys to a Happy Loving Family. This […]
