Resilience

You've taken a leap out on a limb, a new career path, lifestyle, or venture. Maybe it's a step-down from what you'd hoped you would be doing. You're dealing with a new challenge at home, a new health issue, unemployment, a breakup. Maybe it was a leap forced by circumstances. Whatever the impetus, you're committed to it. Read More

"Parachute: A device for slowing the descent of a person or object through the air that consists of a fabric canopy beneath which the person or object is suspended." Read More

Storytelling has been around since the first human beings sat down around a fire and talked about their lives. These first training sessions on resilience occurred thousands of years ago.  From campfires to fireplaces, potbelly stoves to water coolers, we continue to tell stories about resilience.  Read More

Parents really don't need to choose between having motivated, hard-working children, and happy, autonomous children who have lots of fun. Read More

Sometimes, on this first anniversary of the earthquake, it feels like very large, steady hands are needed to pull together the two sides of the gaping wound that is Haiti, hands that Michelangelo might fashion for this purpose. Read More

“One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read More

The simplest most effective formula for dealing with obstacles and adversity. Read More

Four recent reports from three continents-Europe, Africa, and Asia-point to the widening net of shopping addiction. Coupled with my recent post, "Compulsive Buying: A Passage to India?" there's more and more evidence that it poses a serious and worsening global problem. Read More

We know a great deal about mental illness but not enough about what psychological health is or what supports it Read More