I personally believe being happily engaged in writing and art making is better than not; and secondly, living without depression, pain and anger is better than living with them. If you’re doing something artful, and smiling, look out, you’re probably having fun. Every word written is a victory against depression and the dysfunction that comes [...]
At sixteen I attended a seminar on Smoking – How to Quit, a compulsory meeting held in the gym at the high school I was attending. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was the girl standing by the split rail fence just at the edge of the school property smoking with the other {boys} kids that had taken up [...]
Most gardens, no matter where they are located are to the majority, pleasing to the eye. All those carefully tended entirely unnatural flower beds, meticulously pruned roses, geometrically trimmed hedges; quite frankly do little for me.
Bad communications bring busy people to their knees. You’re busy, your clients, students, prospects, suppliers, vendors, lenders and everyone you deal with on a daily basis are busy. Quickly picking up on the best way to communicate with each person can save you huge amounts of time. Garro’s Personality Detective System (PDS) is all about [...]
How do you know when it’s time to say goodbye? To move on? To go separate ways? There comes a point for many people, whether it’s with the true love of your life, the gang at church, your oldest friend, or a group you used to hang with, when something is just not the way it was. So what to do? And when to do it?
In the fall of 1990, I was meeting with two other men on a regular basis to explore our dreams and aspirations. Every two weeks, we would gather at a Chinese buffet and talk for several hours about things we’d like to do some day. It was around the time of the Men’s Movement, where [...]
To the question ”Are you happy?”…up to 99% of all would say…No. Here’s the thing – sometimes love spoils us and sometimes we spoil love. Most of us want world peace but before we can have world peace, we’ve got to get a handle on what it takes to maintain healthy peaceful relationships. So it stands [...]
Laid Off? Take Time & Birth A New You When I was laid off years ago as a legal secretary and transcriber, I had a lot of doubts, guilt and shame. It took a while to fight back for my own worth. I found important to use this time to explore my options. I found [...]
Liber Novis (New Book) (The Red Book) C.G. Jung (1875-1961), introduced by Sonu Shamdasani Half of this oversize red leather bound Liber Novus is devoted almost half to C.G. Jung’s Oil and Watercolor fantasy painting out of his awake conscious explorations. Although the first half of the book with the majority of the paintings is [...]
One of the reasons that low self-esteem exists on such a large scale is that there is relatively little emphasis on the subject in early education. Children are only briefly educated about self-esteem concepts in school. They learn about the general concepts and little more. Children who learn to build self-esteem from an early age [...]
