So you meet someone, become infatuated, date, and allow your mind to create an exaggerated image of that person. Soon you find that he’s your soul mate. You don’t…

It was an odd friendship right from the start. I was in a local store, trying to buy some new rocks—a crystal, maybe some lapis—something beautiful to change the…

It is our job to identify our needs, and then determine a balanced way of getting those needs met. We ultimately expect our Higher Power and the Universe—not one…

Make every moment count. The first time I heard the words, I was sitting in the movie theater with Shane. He was eleven at the time. There were only…

How easy it is to dive into roles at work. How easy it is to place other people in roles. Sometimes, this is necessary, appropriate, and expedient. But we…

Enjoy each moment as it comes. It’s so easy to relish that final moment, when the project is finished and the work is turned in. It’s easy to trick…

Many of us have gotten so good at following the “don’t feel” rule that we can try to talk ourselves out of having feelings, even in recovery. “If I…

Oh, the glory of the ordinary! I wake up, roll over, and look out the sliding glass door at the sun rising over the distant layers of hills. Today…

Many of us have been so deprived of nurturing that we think it’s silly or self-indulgent. Nurturing is neither silly nor self-indulgent; it’s how we show love for ourselves.…

“The entire skydive is great,” a friend said to me. “But one of my favorite moments is when we open the door, and I can see the whole sky…