HOW TO BE AUTHENTIC: Knowing your truth
'Beyond our ideas of right doing and wrongdoing there is a field I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, [...]
HOW IMPORTANT IS SETTING BOUNDARIES?
Boundaries are different in each culture. Individualistic societies tend to set boundaries individually and collectivist societies set boundaries around the group or family. Personal and social distance is different in cultures as is eye contact [...]
THE PROBLEM WITH WORRY
There is a conversation in the movie Bridge of Spies when Tom Hanks says to Mark Rylance "Aren't you worried" and he says "Will it help?". Unless worry results in action of some sort it [...]
FINDING COMPASSION WITHIN
Every part of us that we do not love will regress and become more primitive – Carl Jung I have been thinking for a long time about writing about Self-Compassion. In my work as [...]
GROWING SELF-ACCEPTANCE
The issue of self- acceptance is a complex one and there are a number of components to consider. First though, the negative affect of non-acceptance of one’s self can be dangerous to one’s health and [...]