Coping with the Boston Marathon Bombing
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How not to take rejection and disappointment so personally in your personal and professional relationships
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When we are paralyzed by fear in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and a small voice whispers – “What’s going to happen to me?” Here’s how to cope with the resulting traumatic stress.
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Honoring Your Differences Instead of Feeling Threatened By Them
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There’s a tendency to make someone ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ just because they have a different point of view or way of doing things. Why not honor your differences – instead of feeling threatened by them?
Categories: Abuse, Acceptance/Self-Acceptance, Communication, Couples, Disappointments, expectations and disappointments, Family, Family, gender, generational, Gift -giving, gift-giving, hurt feelings, Rejection, Rejection, Relationships, Resentment, Soroptimists International, Style Differences, style differences, taking personally, Workplace -
On Valentine’s Day Is the Value of Your Relationship Tied Up in a Gift?
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Don’t get thrown off center by Valentine’s Day disappointment. Here are some tips for navigating Valentine’s Day whether you are part of a couple or unattached.
Categories: Acceptance, Acceptance/Self-Acceptance, Anxiety, Appreciation, Disappointment, Disappointments, Flowers, Gift -giving, gift-giving, Gifts, Gratitude, hurt feelings, Rejection, Rejection, relationship, Relationships, self-appreciation, style differences, Style Differences, taking personally, Travel, Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day cards -
Django Freeman Meets James Hood
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A look at some parallels between Django Unchained and James Hood’s role in civil rights history when he and Vivian Malone courageously integrated the University of Alabama in 1963.
Categories: 1963 Integration of University of Alabama, Acceptance/Self-Acceptance, Bull Conner, Current Affairs, Django Freeman, Django Unchained, Donald Stewart, Dr. John L. Blackburn, Fear, Governor George Wallace, James Hood, Joe Levin, John Clements, John F. Kennedy, King Schultz, Melvin Meyer, Nicholas Katzenbach, Politics, Racial segregation, Rejection, Segregation, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, Stand-In-the-Schoolhouse-Door, University of Alabama, Vivian Malone Jones -
Rage is ‘Anger with a History’ – Trying to Make Sense of the Sandy Hook School Killings
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Trying to understand the Sandy Hook Elementary School Killings: Rage is beyond the experience of anger. Where anger reflects something happening in the present, rage reflects overwhelming feelings from the past which intrude into the present situation. Rage is ‘anger…