When a dear friend and his partner recently moved into their new house (pictured here), his mother asked a poignant question that caught my attention like a headline in 64-point bold capital font. "Do you own it yet?" She didn’t mean whether they'd completed the financial transaction that made them the house's legal owners. She wanted to know whether he felt a deep connection to… read more
The sting of rejection can be sharper than the prick of a bee's stinger, but we always have at our disposal the antidote to prevent rejection's sting in the first place: The magic salve of choice, our unequivocal freedom to choose what we want and the meaning we assign to any situation. So often rejection is the result of the Ego feeling bruised because we… read more
When fear recently rode into my life and tried to pitch camp in the terrain of my mind, I discovered a strong need to seek order in the face of disorder. I'd gotten a scare from my doctor about an abnormality detected in a routine exam, and I wouldn't know whether his suspicions were founded until I had further tests run the next morning. I… read more
