A few weeks ago I was speaking in a training workshop for emotion regulating skills. One of the participants anxiously asked what I thought about gossiping, and a lively discussion started. All the group members agreed that they never felt good about gossiping, and that gossiping could often backfire; they themselves could easily become [...]
As someone who makes my livelihood helping folks clarify issues, and often giving advice, I have been reminded recently that this is not always effective in my personal life! I got a reaction the other day from my partner that reminded me to examine my approach here. I was basically told to ‘back off’ when [...]
We were having tea with our neighbor yesterday who was talking about her New Year resolutions. I was reminded of how often we make these ambitious statements to ourselves and then in a few months we get discouraged and anxious (“I’ll never really be able to do that!”), or life has taken over and we [...]
New dates will be released in 2021.
