Author: Elayne Savage, PhD
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Relationships Take a Lotta Work
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President Obama’s State of the Union address offers tips for building relationships, starting with respectful communication, honoring differences, cooperation and teamwork,
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Enough Trudging Through the Sludge – Time to Conjure Up Some Joy
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Bringing joy into our lives means moving away from negative thinking which has been passed down through the generations. It takes courage to break free.
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When ‘Gratitude’ Takes on Personality
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When we can open our hearts to giving and receiving gratitude our perspective about ourselves and about our world changes.
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What’s Going to Happen to Me? Facing and Overcoming Fear
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Fear is in the air and it’s contagious and debilitating. Fear brings up helplessness, uncertainty, worry, apprehension and anxiety. Put fear in perspective and get it under control by understanding how and why you are affected by outside events and what steps you can take to overcome the fear.
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Outraged, Enraged, Air Raged
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Air rage boils down to someone taking something personally. Like road rage, air rage is an out of control reaction to feeling wronged, slighted, or intruded upon. When someone invades our personal space, we feel disrespected. We take it personally. The events regarding the Jet Blue flight attendant and passenger are good examples of this.
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The Clinton-Mezvinsky Wedding – Not Making the Cut
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I didn’t make the cut for the Clinton-Mezvinsky Wedding even though Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky was a high school friend. But I’m not taking it personally.
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Traveling Back in Time – From Self-Rejection to Self-Acceptance
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Revisiting the University of Alabama, provides an opportunity to rediscover the self-rejecting co-ed I once was , to appreciate the grown up professional I’ve become, and to show appreciation for someone who contributed to this growth.
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Held Hostage by Sears
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Does it drive you crazy to be at the mercy of delivery or repair people? How do you cope with waiting around all day for someone to show up?