More accurately, I’m thinking about how people treat me *and* how I treat myself. Recently I’ve met someone, and he treats me very well. He’s respectful, thoughtful, kind, funny, smart, and he thinks about me as an important part of his day. I think he had my heart somewhere around the time I jokingly said, … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Emotions
Thinking about letting go
We’ve all said it or had someone say it to us, if not both. It’s the mantra of the well meaning…”Just let it go”. I manage to be patient and understanding most of the time, but sometimes it is absolutely teeth gnashingly, jaw clenchingly, fist makingly difficult not to get snippy. Most often that is … Continue reading
Thinking about frustration
So I’m working with a nutrition coach to change some habits I’d prefer not to take into the next 50 years of my life. Today during our call she asked me about the frustration I had just mentioned and I explained it was actually something that had come up a lot lately. I honestly have … Continue reading
Thinking about Love
Yes, I capitalized it. It’s a word of a thousand and one meanings and examples, so it is worthy of capitalization. When we think about love, we often think about romantic love or love between a parent and child, something traditionally seen as ‘real love’. But the Ancient Greeks had a broader interpretation of what … Continue reading
Thinking about anger
I’ve spent most of my life trying not to be angry. I somehow got the message that anger was bad. Maybe it was more than anger was unfeminine? Either way, anger was not something I was supposed to express. Or even feel. How do you live without ever being angry? I learned to smile when … Continue reading
Thinking about being alike
In the story below it only takes a minute or two to understand where the writer is headed but it takes the full eight minutes to ‘get it’. Trust me, it’s worth the time. This is my go to for times when I need a little cheering up. It reminds me that there is no … Continue reading
Thinking about the time we have left
…we can imagine our last Christmas, our last summer vacation, our last anniversary or birthday, etc. far more easily than we can a random Tuesday in March. Continue reading
Thinking about Social and Emotional Learning
I’ve been thinking about going back to school, as I’m sure every teacher and parent and student has been, and the ways that being out of school for several months and then spending the summer being pretty limited as to what you can do will impact our children during the coming year. We still don’t … Continue reading
Time To Stop and Think 