My Parent Has Cancer And It Really Sucks

One of the hardest thing that a person may have to face is the diagnosis of cancer.  Your life is changed forever as are the lives of those of your family and friends.  The adults will decide among themselves how they can best deal with the situation and what will be necessary for them in [...]

Loving Yourself

If you have ever embarked on any self-help or self-improvement study, one of the first things that is addressed is that in order to advance or in order to love someone else or in order to improve your life, etc., you must first learn to love yourself. I don’t know about anyone else but to [...]

How Did Your Past Affect You

I was recently watching an episode of the TV show, “Couples Therapy” and couldn’t help but be drawn in by some of the questions that therapist Dr. Jenn Berman was asking of the participants. The discussions centered on issues that had occurred in the past, particularly when the guests were young, that have affected their [...]

Happy Anniversary to Let Life Happen

So, you have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time and you are facing a double mastectomy and reconstruction along with a parathyroid/thyroid surgery at some point.  What do you do?  Yes, I did go to Disneyland. But, if you are me and you have the most supportive and awesome husband imaginable, [...]

Inside the Mind of A Domestic Abuse Survivor

I am not who you think I am.  If you know that I am a domestic abuse survivor, you most likely think that I am weak and stupid for getting myself into such a situation in the first place and for staying as long as I did.  Most likely, you view me as a victim, [...]

If You Know Abuse…

…then this message is for you.  I do not remember any time in the past that I have heard so many stories about abuse that angered me.  My anger is not at the abusers this time however but for those who are being or have been abused.  The idea that we are “survivors” is no [...]

More Lessons Learned from Japan’s Tragedies

In the week following the earthquake, tsunami and damage at the nuclear plants in Japan, I watched the coverage that continued to be fed back from the ravished areas.  One thing that struck me was the people lined up for aid or shopping or transportation, etc. for hours on end, even days after the initial [...]

My Lessons Learned from Japan’s Tragedies

As I sat watching the 10:00 p.m. local news on Thursday, March 10th, there was an interruption for breaking news about 20 minutes into the broadcast.  I remember that I started to wonder whether this was just another police pursuit or other routine story for this city but what I watched over the next hour [...]

Focus On Your Desires

Shortly after I got up this morning, I managed to kick into one of the legs on the bed.  The pain in my toe was unbelievable but I thought that it would pass in a short period of time and I proceeded with my day.  I had some errands to run and I started to [...]

Constructive Criticism

As part of the completion of the fiscal year at our office on September 30th comes the Performance Evaluations.  Those were shared with each employee yesterday and I must admit that I have never seen such a sad situation.  The silence was deafening.  So many people were extremely upset and this was played out in [...]

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