Life Lessons

I’ll start the week with my own comment since no one commented on last week’s blog - “Counseling - Could You Use Some Help?“.  I mean NO ONE.  I think asking for help is a growth experience and even though no one commented on it, I hope you read it and stored it away for [...]

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My inspiration for my weekly blog topic can come from anywhere and I do mean anywhere.  This week I was driving back from the store past the office of the Psychotherapist I went to see last year.  Since you already know almost all the intimate details of my life, why stop now!  I do still [...]

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When I got divorced I had to be with people especially on Friday and Saturday nights.  I was already feeling like a loser so not having something to do on the weekend confirmed this belief.  I had joint custody with my ex-husband so I had the boys one week out of two.  Since they were [...]

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Wow I’m realizing how many cheerleaders I have and I would like to acknowledge them.  I’m adding to my team readers of the blog and that make me feel really happy and encouraged.  Having this support team around me I can do more, personally and professionally.  I’ve told you folk’s things I haven’t previously told [...]

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I have become disturbingly aware that we spend an inordinate amount of time criticizing something or someone or for that matter yourselves.
Have you been to church and on the steps some women are criticizing the wardrobe of some of the other women?  I know you have and if you don’t go to church, you do [...]

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I have a dear friend whom I love with all my heart.  Last year was not a good year.  He broke up with his long time girlfriend (thank God), his business he was running was not flourishing due to the economy and the apartment building he lived in didn’t even have heat at one point [...]

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Have you noticed how rich people get into so much trouble when their needs to survive are already met and exceeded?  Look at Michael Jackson, with all that talent and money, how screwed up the poor guy was.  Whether it is Britney Spears or Howard Hughes, I don’t care, it is really rare that people [...]

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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. I am only one, but still I [...]

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It always bothers me to hear, “it’s not fair”.  Life is not fair.  But somehow we insist with this underlying belief that somehow it should be.  The good guys get the girl and ride off into the sunset.  Nice people don’t get sick and hardworking, honest people get all they deserve.
I learned this hard lesson [...]

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