Drugs Work Until They Don’t

As I heard many times in my career “Drugs work until they don’t”. Nearly every day I hear of someone losing their life because of drug use. Sometimes it is a celebrity like Scott Weiland or Whitney Houston and it hits the news. Other times it is a local parent or...

7 Ways to Combat Holiday Blues

As we approach the holiday season, many people are asking me about ways to combat holiday blues. Holiday blues often stem from a life transition or experience that carries a belief about how things should be or look. There are commercials galore that paint pictures of...

How to Break the Approval Seeking Habit

Approval seeking is one of the most insidious and debilitating blocks experienced by bright and gifted people. When you over-identify with any one aspect of character, you leave yourself open and vulnerable to becoming unbalanced and limited in your available...

It’s All in the Questions

We ask ourselves and others questions all day. What do I want to wear today? What’s for dinner? Should I visit my friend in the hospital? How do I look? How are you? What do I really want to do with my life? What do I most value in my life? You get it, the list is...

Stay Focused in a Distracting World

I have heard it said that the average attention span when looking at an article is a few seconds. I too find myself looking for the bold text or bullet points in articles. Give me the down and dirty information and I will decide if I want to read the rest of the...