Hello, Families! How often do you put off what you need to do? Shelve it. Avoid it. Out of sight, out of mind. Procrastination is an everyday occurance. We put off things that we just can’t commit immediate attention to. Like credit, we will delay payment until the end of the month! It is a psychological strategy. Procrastination serves as a coping mechanism for avoiding stress and anxiety due to overcommitting one’s self....
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Hello, Families! “Words that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical.” –Lao-tse. That sounds like love to me! “To love something you must set it free.” Yep, a paradox. Webster’s Dictionary defines paradox as “a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.” How do you deal with the problems in your relationships? Do you escape the problems...
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Hello, Families! There are losses that we experience in our lives both big and small. There are ideas and hopes that somehow don’t work out. There are choices, decisions, and risks that don’t materialize. These are losses that we experience nearly every day, and these losses are important to recognize and grieve. Through grieving, these losses have lessons that we can learn from which will make you smarter, stronger, and...
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Hello, Families! “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –Napoleon Hill What does faith mean to you? How often do you think of the faith that you have? “Seeing is believing” is a pragmatic approach to life. We tend to trust the tangible things in our lives. From a self-help perspective, most of us rely on accomplishment, success, or validation from others to reinforce our positive...
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Hello, Families! Stress, fear and imagination. What do these three things have in common? These are all constructs of our minds and bodies that interact together. Stress is the body’s response when we are in need of resources we do not have. Our bodies move into a stress response in order to move into action. What typically happens though is that this response system becomes hyperactive–we use it too much! Instead of our...
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