It’s Hurt People Who Hurt People

It’s always been my intent to foster personal growth, both as a therapist and as the woman I am. It’s a personal passion of mine as well as a daily intention. While the current political and social landscape is inspiring the energy from which I write, my motivation is still to encourage each reader to

#46 Hone Your Good Manners

The same courtesy remains even though the phones are no longer attached to the wall. If you are engaged with someone, turning your attention to a cell phone is simply rude.

#77 Switch Hands

Scientists tell us that if we are using one side of our body more often than not, it hold true also that we are using only one side of our brain more often than not.

#82 Create a Plan

It’s really very simple. Life is just one big, personal house that we begin designing in adolescence with a vision of who we are and what we want for ourselves.

#100 Quit a Bad Habit

If you can eliminate your bad habit for at least 21 days, the odds of beating it all together is greatly improved.

#109 Try a New Perfume or Aftershave

This suggestion is for those of you who know how to take a risk, who want to try something different, and who aren’t afraid of change.

#121 Make a list of Positive Affirmations

It’s a way to overturn critical and negative self talk with something encouraging and healthy.

#124 Realign Your Priorities

If someone tells me that their family is the most important thing on Earth but then works sixty hours a week, they are demonstrating that it’s not ‘time’ with family but ‘providing for’ family is the priority.

#126 Make a New Friend

It may be that as we grow into a new interest, we discover that surrounding ourselves with people who also like those things may inspire us to go further than we knew we could.

#131 Sleep on the Other Side of the Bed

We are creatures of habit and without realizing it, we tend to slip into comfortable routines that create the potential for chunks of monotony to set in.