The Grief Box

Last week I was talking to a woman who lost her husband almost a year-and-a-half ago. He and his brothers went on a yearly golf outing and this year when the brothers went, they found a golf ball with a logo from where he worked in the rough. They said it was him...

I Speak Ohmart

Fluently! I also speak Socolofsky. The combination of the two is my native tongue. What’s yours? Several weeks ago, a friend was leading a bible study and she said “I speak Swart”. And then went on to explain that her language is based on how the people...

Mindfulness

On Monday I shared the cartoon at the right on FaceBook. It recalled much of my teaching in the Equine Gestalt Coaching Method® program. Melisa often said that horses are always in the present moment, always mindful and they help us be. Mindfulness means maintaining a...

Optimism

Even after watching for two hours as they stabilized Mike before taking us to the airport, I was sure everything would be fine. That’s how optimistic I am. I was talking to my BWEL Study coach last week and she asked me if I was optimistic. Well, funny you should ask...

Resilience

– the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. I suppose I’ve always been resilient. I don’t remember many difficulties that I had to recover from as a child. One of the first memories I have of trauma is seeing my dog hit by a pickup when I was...

Procrastination

It’s amazing how I can find something “important” at least in that moment to do when I am resisting doing something that needs to be done. As this blog post is a day late, I must have had some of those things come up to keep me from writing. I’m not very good at...