Posts Tagged ‘creativity’
Finding a Silver Lining After a Loss
Change is inevitable, but when it involves loss, we can get stuck in grief and anger rather than accepting what’s happened and moving forward. Yet when I was a practicing licensed clinical psychologist, I often saw clients who had received a deeply distressing diagnosis or another devastating loss find silver linings that were initially hidden from them. I watched people with terminal illnesses grow in self-awareness, access and express their long-repressed feelings, and recognize at last what they most valued. They healed old wounds . . .
Read MoreMake Habits Stick
How often have you vowed to make a change in some area of your life only to find that after a few attempts to establish a new habit, you’ve gone back to the old ways? Changes at the margin can become habits, but there are secrets that chan help you make habits stick. Dream big…
Read MoreGet in Touch with Your Creativity
Too many people operate on autopilot, bored with their lives and feeling restless. Have you become trapped in a story that’s no longer serving you, in patterns that make you yearn to feel more enlivened? Get in touch with your creativity and you might be able to write a new story for yourself that’s more…
Read MoreDesign a New Future for Yourself
In the physical world, things have a past and a future, a beginning and an end. For example, I’m sitting on a chair in my office at my desk that I’ve had for more than fifty years. At some point, this chair was just an idea in someone’s head. They designed it, and then, it…
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