A new year typically brings thoughts of new goals, new beginnings, new adventures, new habits, new ways of living life.

Why do we do this?

The aim is to transform our lives. We want to make our lives better, brighter, easier. We want to be a...

I read this powerful quote. It is often attributed to Viktor Frankl, but it is actually from an unknown source. I just had to share it.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In...

Feelings of worthlessness are common among us humans. But those feelings are not reflections of fact. Regardless of how you feel about yourself, you have worth and are worthy. That’s a fact.

Feelings of worthlessness are the result of...

When you think of ‘stress management’, what comes to mind?

Do you picture a bathtub filled with warm water covered in bubbles? Do you see yourself getting a massage? A mani/pedi? Do you think about a girls’/men’s night out?...

Imagine your best friend calls you in the evening one day. He says, “I just can't handle this particularly difficult challenge anymore! I am so overwhelmed…I just can’t take it.”

What is your response?

Is it some...

I don’t know about you, but I have some rules for myself. These rules are actually more like guidelines that I have set for myself to better myself. They include not eating past 8:00pm, no watching movies during the week, and...

My puppy, Toby, is almost 6 months old. He’s got a lot of energy and likes to run very fast.

But he also has a few things to learn. He’s still jumping up on people when he’s excited, digging holes in my parents’ flower bed...

When you want to get physically stronger, what do you do?

You lift weights. You take on challenge.

If you haven’t lifted weight before and you want to benchpress 200 pounds, do you just set the weight machine at 200 and simply press it?

No....

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it interesting that sometimes I seem to find themes in my life- I go through an experience, read something, hear something, or see something in a relatively short timeframe that all have a similar theme. My...

I was recently asked, “What do you do for your stress management routine?”

I thought this was a great question because, one, a routine implies that stress management is not a “once and done” thing; routine implies that it...