Communication-How do you talk to yourself?

Do you realize that the way you talk to yourself is completely in your control? It is by believing this little nugget that you take charge of your life.

Let me share with you what Carol, a coaching client, excitedly shared with me today.  We had been talking about the importance of changing how [...]

Power of Words

A friend sent me a link to a YouTube video on The Power of Words. You will see how by just changing the written words the same message is dramatically changed.  I urge you to see it a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU> Since my expertise is helping people make changes so that they can feel in charge [...]

Valentine’s Day Musings

Today is Valentine’s Day.  My husband reminded me that 45 years ago we had our engagement party on this day.  For years Valentine’s Day brought back memories of that special day.  Today it was his reminder that brought the memory back.  I like to think that the reason I no longer think of that [...]

Rekindle Your Relationship

Did you know that we need change in life in order to feel vibrant?   We need it as individuals and also in our relationships. It is newness that revitalizes us and keeps us energized.  Relationships need periodic rekindling. Marriages  settle into predictable patterns of interacting.  This may work well for many years  but [...]

Control in Relationships

Being in a relationship makes it much harder to also stay in control of your own life.  That is because our relationships organize us. Let me tell you about Carol and how she changed in her marriage.  She is a college educated woman who decided to be a stay at home mom.  Over the [...]

Communication and Relationships

I have just come back from a fabulous  trip to Brazil visiting Iguazzu Falls, the Panatanal and Rio de Jainero.   While in Rio I had to seek medical care because I discovered that I had a tick embedded on my thigh no doubt brought along from the Safari excursion  in the Wetlands.   [...]

Power of Internal Communication

Each one of us deep inside wants to feel good about who we are. Simply put we want to accept, respect and love ourselves and have people in our lives who appreciate us just for who we are.

One of my friends had been struggling for years with being overweight. It bothered her greatly. [...]

Relationships and Communication

Have you taken something another person said to you personally?  I am certain that everyone of us has experienced that at some time. I surely have done it.  It is a rather common struggle in relationships.  Our self-esteem gets hooked and we respond from our emotional vulnerability.  Here is a useful tip to remember: [...]

Power of Relationships

I just wrote an article at my other site: http://www.budurl.com/rekindle.  It is about how our relationships organize us into repetitive  patterns.

Have you ever noticed that after  living  with someone for a while that conflicts and a good bit of conversation becomes repetitive?  I chatted today about the patterns we get into with friends [...]

Living Together

I read an interesting observation today stressing a big drawback of living together before marriage.  The reason given was  that  many people begin to live together before they have had a chance to experience what it is like to be independent. As a result they miss out on the growing up step of standing [...]