“Safety” is a word that we feel more than we speak, when it comes to our significant relationships. We also frequently feel unsafe, not necessarily physically but perhaps emotionally. We all want to feel safe. However, we may go about achieving that safety in some very creative ways. Like Earl, in the cartoon above, I…
DetailsWhile we have talked about “Love” in previous posts, it has been awhile and the discussion is always ongoing. I appreciate the words of one author, in her discussion of the powerful influence of media. She writes that it took her 30 years to discover important aspects of ethical relationships that she had never seen…
DetailsOn July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 from South Korea crashed short of the runway at San Francisco Airport. The plane struck the ground with the tail hitting a seawall. Three flight attendants were ejected. One of the remaining flight attendants, Lee Yoon-Hye, helped hundreds of passengers get safely out of the plane and…
DetailsIt is one of those days. On your way to work there was an accident that backed traffic up for two miles. Then, once you got to work, things weren’t much better. Two of your employees were out sick, last night’s orders were never entered into the system, and the toner on the copier is…
DetailsAuthor Dana Reinhardt recounts the evening she escorted her elderly grandmother to an event honoring a Vietnam Vet. Complete with many celebrities, Dana pointed several out to her, including Robert Downey Jr. Later, exiting the facility, her grandmother tripped and fell hard into the wheelchair ramp, slicing her right shin. As she bled profusely, Robert…
DetailsA couple recently sat in my office – intense, unhappy, and bearing down on their marriage with the same exertion required to open a very tight jar. In other words, they were working really really hard but were not having success. The marriage was no longer fulfilling and they both felt unable to meet the…
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As you read that title, you may immediately pull up images of people that contribute to your happiness, as well as those who don’t. You may think of how well you get along with certain friends or where you clash with siblings (or the other way around). But according to the Journal of Personality and…
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What if I could teach you in under 100 pages, steps that that could improve your most important relationships forever? Would you want it? On October 25th, my newest book, Relationship On Purpose: 8 Strategies Guaranteed to Improve Your Marriage or Significant Relationship, was released. I believe so strongly that these strategies can absolutely change…
DetailsYou have no doubt heard the phrase (maybe you have even spoken it), “rejection hurts.” Well a recent study has concluded just how true that may be. The results, published by the National Academy of Sciences, found that the regions of the brain that respond to physical pain overlap with those that react to social…
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