Category Archives: Wellbeing Wisdom

In “Your Emotions Are Talking To You: Are You Listening?” I discussed the various ways we relate to our emotions: 1) ignore them, hoping they go away, 2) play chicken, thinking we’ll “win” or overpower them, or 3) acknowledge their existence and allowing them to move. We need to “name it” (i.e. the emotion) toContinue reading “Emotional Agility: How to Navigate Your Emotional Landscape”

“Trust the process”. Has anyone else been told this? It feels virtually impossible to ‘trust the process’ when you’re in the middle of a shitstorm – excuse the language, but it’s true – getting tossed around. We become disoriented from all of the tossing. Without knowing which end is up, we grasp at whatever seemsContinue reading “Ups, Downs, and Turnarounds: Wading Through the Uncertainties of Life”

If an ambulance with sirens blaring screams passed you, do you ignore it and keep driving, stop stubbornly in the middle of the road, or do you pull over to let the ambulance pass? If, at night, the power suddenly goes out, do you sit in the darkness, franticly flail about the house knocking overContinue reading “Your Emotions Are Talking To You. Are You Listening?”

How are you with contradictions? Do you fight them and argue one side?

As meaning-making beings, we try hard to make sense of what’s going on in and around us.

Zero or a hundred, with very little in between. Has anyone experienced this? You’re either going along, living your life at 100 miles per hour or you halt to a dead stop. My whole life has been a lesson in pacing. When I was a child my family nickname was the “wild child”. If IContinue reading “Lessons in Pacing”