Self Discovery and Personal Growth Begin with ‘aha’ Moments
Self discovery provides insight needed for personal growth, while personal growth enriches self-understanding sparked by aha moments and supported by therapy.
Patricia Morgan
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Breaking Brain Patterns: Negative Self-Talk Interventions
Childhood experiences can contribute brain patterns of non-compassionate and negative self-talk in our adult brains. But self-talk interventions can help.
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Anchor
High Performance Relationships by J. Peters – Book Summary
High Performance Relationships is a well-researched, practical, and helpful resource for those ready to mend, deepen, or enhance their relationships. Dr. Peters has systematized a lifetime of self-searching, research, academic work and leadership experience. She is thorough in ensuring her personal perspectives are in alignment with current research, drawing from the fields of communications, career […]
Use Family Meetings to Fuel Love and Cooperation
“We have a plan!” I’ve heard that at many workplace meetings when the team assembled to prevent or solve a problem. To reduce your family stress and increase your family’s resilience begin to have regular Family Meetings. Too many families wait until there is a serious issue before coming together to discuss making changes. Most businesses, faith, volunteer, […]
Lovable You! Why You Are from Head and Heart
To love yourself unconditionally means to treasure yourself merely because you exist.
Single Parent: 10 Powerful Tips from a Solo Mom
Although being a single parent can be rewarding or a relief from an unfulfilling or unhappy relationship, it often has significant challenges. Challenges can include financial constraints as well as time management, needing to juggle work, parenting, and other responsibilities all at once. Social isolation can create feeling of cut-off from peers due to the lack […]
Kids’ Humor: How to Lighten Up Like a Wise Child
Delightfully, out of the mouths of babes comes the truth. We adults have workaholiced ourselves away from taking time to wonder at life nuances. We are socialized to worry about what the neighbours and our mother-in-law think, to look successful and to hide our feelings to the point that we have forgotten the essence of a normally absurd life. There is much we can learn by connecting to babies and children. They remind us of our own childlike essence – the kid in us.
Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
Book Summary of Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them In the last several years, clients have increasingly expressed sadness and grief about experiences of family cut offs or estrangement. Dr. Karl Pillemer, author of Fault Lines refers to this dynamic as fractures. Here is a summary of his book, including the research, […]
How to Make a Chocolate Bar Card
Making a chocolate bar card on someone’s birthday is fun for the creator and the receiver. The materials are easily accessible and the creative result, fun.
How to Develop Assertiveness Skills to Speak Up!
When challenged or feeling stressed most of us have a tendency to react in a passive, aggressive or passive/aggressive manner.
Yummy and Easy Holiday Cookies: Make, Refrigerate, Eat!
Take the cookie roll out of the fridge and cut into slices. Is that stress relieving or what?