Develop resilience and move easier through the daily dramas
You know the bad stuff is gonna happen. Life feels tough from time to time. Change happens. Daily dramas push against us – at least every once-in-awhile. Heck, sometimes even grocery shopping is enough to throw me off track. Just what your daily dramas are or how you define the bad stuff often depends on [...]
Align Body, Mind, Spirit to Live a Connected Life
Let’s get a couple of things straight: I love junk food and I would prefer not to exercise (though I do). But, I also like breathing, walking to the mailbox without getting winded, and wearing the same jeans week after week. When it became harder to meet those last goals, I decided to get to [...]
Learned optimism helps during trouble
Optimism is a learned behavior and with repeated use, it turns into a habit. But, unlike nail biting or television watching, this is one habit that is good to have. Grounded optimism is a core component to resilience – that cluster of traits that can buoy you through the bad times. And, since bad times [...]
Reconnect to your resilience through optimism
Been thinking about resilience a lot lately as I work to develop a class on the topic for The Daily Om. Used to be, we believed that a person was born resilient and the rest of us were just plain outta luck. Now research has shown that resilience is actually a cluster of different skills [...]
Say something positive — about yourself
On Monday I wrote about a report in Glamour Magazine that says that 97-percent of all women have a negative thought about their physical body – EVERY DAY. I’m thinking that is not at all helpful. And while there are plenty of things to blame and complain about that influence how women feel about themselves, [...]
How to cope with the little changes in life
I’m a planner. A to-do-lister. I like to have things organized. To know what needs to happen and when. And, I like to charge ahead and get it done. I do NOT like it when plans change. But, plans always change. So, I’m learning to roll with that. Sort of. Well, I’m working on it [...]
What’s your story?
When things go haywire and life takes a scary, irritating, messy turn – how do you talk about it? Do you dwell on the drama and despair? Or do you tell a story about how you can figure it out and thrive? What is the story you tell? When we’re caught up in what feels [...]
Ask good questions, get a good life
Had a great time speaking to the MOMS Club of Beaverton South yesterday about Everyday Resilience. The members there asked some good questions. Questions that still have me thinking. Which reminded me of the work of Noah St. John who says, that the questions you ask influence the quality of your life. He describes how [...]
Decide to have a good day and you probably will
Every morning, as we eat breakfast, my daughter Sweet P checks the weather report in the newspaper. She can’t read yet. But, she can tell by the little graphic whether it’s going to be sunny, or snowy, or partly sunny, or rainy – as it often is during an Oregon winter. She runs down the [...]
The good thing about bad emotions
I write and talk a lot about ways we can feel better in our lives. I believe that when you feel better, happier, less stressed, you do better and have more to give. But, I don’t want to give negative emotions a bad rap. They can be motivating, illuminating, and often provoke positive action. The [...]
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