“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 […]
If Your Goal Is To Create a Happy Family
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” […]
How Exercise Can Help the Brain (and Other Things)
One of the books that we have told many friends and family about is Spark: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey and Eric Hagerman. John Ratey, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of numerous bestselling and groundbreaking books, including Driven to Distraction and […]
What Dogs Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” -Milan Kundera You probably don’t need to tell a die-hard dog lover (like me) […]
You CAN Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
“Families break up when people take hints you don’t intend and miss hints you do intend.” -Robert Frost At the heart of relationships is the art of communication. How tragic that we do not spend as much time teaching our children the skills necessary to get along with others as we do teaching them math […]
Exercise as an Anti-Depressant
Have you ever been close to someone who suffers from depression? What you may or may not know is that while antidepressants can be life saving for some, they can be only partially effective and sometimes ineffective for others. Doctors respond initially by trying patients on other kinds of antidepressants but when that fails, they […]
