Continuing bonds refer to the connections people often continue to feel towards important people in their lives who have died. People maintain and experience these continuing bonds in different ways. Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Life Narratives
Six Steps to Actualizing Dream Projects
Most of us have a dream project, maybe more than one. All too often we don’t bring those dreams—large or small—to fruition. From my own experience, I’ve found it helpful to keep these six steps in mind in actualizing dream projects. Think D-E-S-I-G-N. Continue Reading
Ghost Notes: Blessed to be a Blessing
I believe we are blessed to be a blessing. This is what my mother told me many times as I grew up. Continue Reading
Building Joy–Ideas for Increasing Personal Happiness
More often we tend to think of joy as something that just happens when an especially good moment comes our way. That’s true in its own way. But we can also be about building joy into our lives. Continue Reading
Acceptance, Choice and New Beginnings
Acceptance is a simple word. Achieving it can be very complicated. Continue Reading
Consciousness, Stories and Identity–How the Human Animal was Born
Anyone who’s been reading this blog knows I’m big on stories. Anyone who knows me as a friend or teacher knows I tell them all the time. But it was only after studying the history of psychology that I came to realize just how critical stories were to the evolution of our identity. Continue Reading
Doing Better is Just the Start–Moving Beyond Bitterness
When you’ve made some bad mistakes in a relationship, the road back from your partner’s bitterness is a challenging one. Just making positive changes isn’t enough, at least at first. Continue Reading
When You’ve Made Some Bad Mistakes–Understanding Their Bitterness
Often in relationships there’s one person who has made some major mistakes that have left the other person feeling angry, bitter or betrayed. (Sometimes all three!) Continue Reading
“And” rather than “But”
My respect for the power of using “and” rather than “but” began early in my work as a psychologist. Continue Reading
Seven Tips for Overcoming Bitterness
The Bitterness Narrative can be overcome by a conscious effort to reframe Continue Reading
The Bitterness Narrative
Is a feeling of bitterness coloring your relationship? Bitterness can be described as a feeling of lingering disappointment, frustration and ultimately resentment Continue Reading
Taking a Second Look at the Chapters of Your Life
How is the plotline in your personal story progressing? Continue Reading
Considering the Hero of Your Life Story
Each of us is the main character of our own life. We really don’t have a lot of choice about that. But whether Continue Reading
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Conversations with the Serpent
Eating one bad apple isn’t all that happened in that garden.