How Do We Not Get Upset At the Next Family Gathering?
We have all heard people confess the stresses of Christmas. One of the most common is all the shopping. However, there is another fairly common stressor that is less talked about......family.
Are you dreading a family or holiday gathering because you have to spend time with that challenging family member?
Need ideas on how to stay calm and peaceful around challenging people?
Often we hear people making painful assumptions about what the other party is thinking. A colleague, friend and Mediator, Lori has witnessed the effects of painful assumptions far too often. After much discussion on the topic, Lori and I published an interview where we go deeper into how people can become more aware of their own thoughts.
During the interview, Lori and I discuss assumptions and how to break free of them. The topic of making assumptions also led us to discuss several topics around mindfulness. One subject we discussed was ways to ease your mind when you are making painful assumptions and how this will result in your relationships improving.
Read more on how you can ease your anxious mind and deepen your relationships.
Read MoreIn Canada, Bully Prevention week is November 18-24th. Once again, this issue is brought to the surface. We notice the issue of Bullying in classrooms, the playground, arenas, and various other places, yet what are we to do about it?
Many books and articles have been written about how to address the Bully. Dozens of programs have been written and implemented in schools about how to stop the Bully.
Why haven't bullies disappeared?
Read MoreRecently, while my teenage daughter and I were at her high school, we overheard a mom yelling into her cell phone about assignments not handed in.
When our children are not doing what we want, it can feel so painful. As a mom, I have done my share of yelling at my kids in an attempt to get them to do what I think is best.
Is yelling at our teens really that effective? Maybe in the short term, it creates some desired changes but over the long term, it can leave our teens more frustrated, more destructive and damage our relationships with them.
What can we do instead?
I recently wrote a blog about the Wim Hof, the IceMan. My blog was tagged to a woman, Sue Regan Kenney, who went to train with Wim Hof to become a certified instructor.
I decided I need to find out more about the Wim Hof Method and so I took a 4.5-hour workshop with Sue. It was incredible!
Want to know more about why on earth I was in a tub of ice and what I learned?...
Read MoreSomedays I find it challenging to interact with children in a calm peaceful way because I have been so well trained to focus on controlling their behaviour or fixing what appears to be wrong with them.
I have found that as I surrender my agenda to control children's behaviour or to fix them, the need for "behaviour managment" strategies disappears.
Now that is such a freeing feeling! Trying to control children's behaviour is so exhausting.
No threats? no rewards? no stickers? How is that possible?
Because I discovered this instead...
This summer I was speaking to a group of people about my recent introduction, by my daughter Grace, to the Ice Man, Wim Hof. He is a man who has done things, that most in the medical field, would say are impossible to survive.
How does he do these apparently impossible things? How would knowing the answer help you? And what does this have to do with Jesus?...
Recently my two younger daughters and I went on a road trip through Quebec. We had an experience that reminded us all of the powerful guidance system we all have within us called Intuition.
Read more on how tapping into your own gut feelings can help keep you safe.
Read MoreMy Uncle Jim recently passed away. After officiating his funeral, this is a story that suddenly resurfaced.
It's a 40-year-old story that I have never told anyone, until now...
Do you have someone challenging in your life who you believe is causing you upset? Do you ever wonder how you will be free of this apparent stress he or she inflicts on you? Read more and learn how to free yourself from your “enemy”.
Read MoreA story on how I recently 'made an assumption' while speaking to a group of retired women. This story takes another look at why and how we make assumptions and how making an assumption is sometimes a reflection of our own fears.
Read MoreHere are my top 10 Things We Do In Schools That We Tend Not To Do In The “Real World”. Over my 20 years of teaching, I have wondered why is it that our school day is filled with many traditions and practices that I feel do not have students, teachers and often parents best interests in mind. Yet we have been doing them for so long, I think most of us never stop to question them.
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