I have always said that happiness is a choice. Every person you know, as well as every person you don’t know, is dealing with some kind of stress or another. Money problems, marital issues, job hassles, anxiety over children, health concerns, etc., are matters that none of us get through life without experiencing. If you [...] Read more »
Swimming with the Current
My brother and I love to scuba dive. It’s one of our favorite things to do whenever we visit someplace new. It’s such an amazing feeling to be 70 feet below the water’s surface, so close to the sea life that you can (but shouldn’t) reach out and touch it. It’s not ALWAYS so amazing, [...] Read more »
Being Mindful of Emotions
I know this is going to come as quite a shock to some of you, so you might want to sit down and prepare yourself for what I am about to say. If devastating news is something that is hard for you to handle or your counselor is out of town, you might want to [...] Read more »
How Big is Your Skillet?
When I lived in Georgia while attending college, my friends and I would routinely take a road trip whenever we had a couple of weeks off in the summer. I remember one year going to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to decompress and clear our heads. We had just finished a grueling quarter of study [...] Read more »
The Winds of Change
Everything has a cycle… For living things with a spine, it consists of birth – then there are phases of growth and development –and then death. Other life forms don’t necessarily have a “birth” per say, but when a flower breaks free from its seed it is basically the same thing, the beginning of that [...] Read more »
A Child at Heart
I admit it. I am a child at heart. The center console in my car is filled with lollipops. I can scratch out a pretty good mix playing DJ Hero on the Wii. There’s nothing better than 15 minutes of the Three Stooges. I can sit across a dinner table with my big brother and [...] Read more »
Motion is Life
Motion is life… Look around. We are surrounded by activity, and everything changes. Inanimate objects are always on the decline. They are constantly being weathered away, broken down, and eroded by the elements. Even so, at the core, even lifeless matter is bustling with activity. A rock seems to be motionless. It doesn’t grow, move, [...] Read more »
Stress is Making You Sick
It’s no mystery that stress will destroy your health. It is well known that stress is a major factor in nearly every degenerative disease in America…and we bury ourselves in it every day. Not many people know, however, exactly how stress will destroy your body. The process will both shock and alarm you. The Stress Response I’m [...] Read more »
If I Could Be Like Mike
Do you remember the song “If I could be like Mike” about Michael Jordon? For some reason, those lyrics are still with me even though I only heard them a few times. It must be really cool having people sing a song about you. I think this is probably the point where you have to [...] Read more »
Living a Prescribed Life
A mother and daughter were cooking a holiday ham for their family. As they chatted and scurried about the kitchen, the daughter watched with curiosity as her mother cut the ends off of the ham before placing it into an oversized cooking pan and sliding it into the oven. “Mom, why do you cut off [...] Read more »