“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” –Abraham Lincoln Each January, when the next year unfolds, we are bombarded with articles on goal-setting and New Year’s resolutions. Many of these otherwise helpful articles fail to mention just how difficult it can be to change–especially when tackling […]
Teach Children the Gift of Giving
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” -Gautama Buddha This is the time, beginning with Thanksgiving and lasting through the arrival of the new year, […]
Give the Gift of Laughter This Year
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” -Mark Twain Every year, at this time of year, tensions mount. The arrival of the gift-giving holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah (“What should I get my mother-in-law?”) accompanied by impending vacations from school (“What will we do with the kids all cooped up in the bad weather?”) collide […]
Embracing Change, The Great Teacher
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide What do things like asking loved ones for advice, reading stacks of self-help books, taking classes, searching for a good therapist, or hours of web-searching all have in common? You probably guessed it. There is something the […]
Practice Gratitude: A Thanksgiving Reminder
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you, that would suffice.” -Meister Eckhart When Thanksgiving arrives each year, just as the number of turkeys, stuffing mixes, green beans, and cranberries seem to grow exponentially, so do the conversations about gratitude. It is perhaps why it is one of everyone’s […]
10 Steps on the Path to Forgiveness
Forgiveness is only one part of a larger process of working through a painful event, trauma, or loss, and it generally comes at the tail end of that process, after a lot of work has been done. As I explained in the previous post, it is a choice not an obligation. When our hurts have […]
