Relationship Skill: Grow Your Self-Esteem

Our self-esteem can be enhanced throughout our life.  The reason I call my blog “Grow With Kristina” is because I feel strongly that people can  strengthen their emotional fitness  by learning new skills that increase their self-worth.

Self-esteem is made up of the feelings and ideas that we have  about ourselves,  how we communicate [...]

Change in My Blog Format

Those of you who are regular readers no doubt have noticed that I recently changed the header of my blog. My previous header focused on people in their second half of life which is a goup dear to me especially since I also fall into that category. However, when I was writing my blog, [...]

Strengthen Your Voice

Do you find yourself in situations where afterwards you say to yourself “I should have spoken up”? Do you pay a lot of attention to what others say or wonder what would so and so say? If this is the case, you may be a victim of “Silent Voice Syndrome”. You are not alone [...]

Why Go to the Gym?

I was talking to some of my fellow exercisers at the gym. We are a predictable bunch who take the same classes on a regular basis. We have seen a lot of other people start enthusiastically and then disappear but there is a core group of steadies.

As we talked we concluded that we [...]

Does Emotional Fitness Create Happiness?

What creates happiness?  The pursuit of it is promised to us as an inalienable right. I like the word pursuit because it puts responsibility on us to attain it.  The right may be there, but we have to pursue it and create it for ourselves.  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of “Finding Flow,” maintains that people [...]

Strengthen Your Emotional Fitness

Do you also think that we can strengthen our emotional fitness throughout our life? I see it as being a necessity if we want to feel vibrantly alive. I define emotional fitness as strengthening WHO you are as a person.

 As we go through life we need to be resilient and adapt to personal [...]

Welcome to My First Blog

Kristina von Rosenvinge welcomes you to her brand new blog! [...]