Resilience

Jaycee Dugard will make a surprisingly positive adjustment to life after her 18 years of living as a kidnapped victim. Other predictions in the media have been dire. Since information is scarce and only time will tell, these predictions are all speculative. Here I simply want to look at some others of these strange cases.

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Editor's Note: From the moment I began reading Ellen's To The Max, a blog about life and love with her son, Max, who had a stroke at birth. I immediately found myself captivated by her honesty, something that is sometimes lacking in the disability world. Read More

Loss makes room in us. We lose a lover or mate and discover in ourselves a storehouse of independence. We no longer have a certain friend in our life but we form an alliance with someone we might otherwise never have known. We lose a parent only to find, paradoxically, a renewed sense of their influence and tenderness in our lives.

What can you do to what is gone-- except to let it go? Perhaps the only thing is to remember that if life is about loss, it is also about discovery.

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Our bodies don't lie. And when we put ourselves into stressful situations we all revert our conditioned tendencies. Part of these tendencies are patterns we've developed over the years through repetitive thought and action. Read More

Watch closely next time your child is deeply involved in play. If she's so focused that she doesn't come when you call her, she's not ignoring you just to be ornery. She's probably in a flow state. You ought to encourage that. Here's why... Read More

People often ask me "What is the story behind the song "Demons Come Dance?" Though a Halloween favorite, it is about psychological demons; not the haunted house variety. Read More

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. Read More

The best humor isn't found in jokes, it's found in stories. Great humor is about loss, refusal, and recovery. It's not about two guys walking into a bar where there's a twelve-inch pianist or a talking dog; it isn't about memorizing limericks.

Humor that remains humorous-and memorable--after fifteen minutes or a hundred years --is material that's slightly dangerous and more than slightly smart. Read More

It's so tempting to cut back on sleep when you can't figure out how to make it all fit. Many of us have an irregular sleep cycle, staying up and sleeping in some days, and trying to rise before the first respectable glimmer of dawn the next day. Read More