Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life

Emotions, Honesty

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Disappointment, Emotions, Letting Go

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Acceptance, Choices, Courage, Emotions, Family

It is not natural to challenge the existing beliefs breaking patterns, and yet once you manage, you create a space for the new patterns to form, the ones that are filled with Love, Acceptance, Knowledge, and you give yourself & your kids a chance to Spiritually Grow.

Action, Courage, Emotions

Hang in there until the storm calms down. You were created to never fold under pressure. But you must use your thoughts to your advantage.

Connection, Emotions, Letting Go, Living Fully, Longing

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Discovery, Emotions, Family, Fear

INSIDE OUT – WHO IS CONTROLLING YOUR EMOTIONS?

There is a new Pixar movie called INSIDE OUT. I’m not going to spoiler alert this for anyone. My advice is – go see this film. In the theatre. Big screen. Surround sound. Popcorn in hand. Get the full-on Technicolor, no distractions movie experience. Inside Out is the story of Riley, an eleven-year -old girl whose many conflicting emotions are starting to take over. It shows us a human being from the POV of their feelings. Each emotion has an… Read More

Emotions, Loss

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Bravery, Clarity, Compassion, Emotions, Fear

WRITING A WRONG….

To write or not to write.  That was the question.  Tracey and I sometimes point-counterpoint our opinions or feelings following major events.  We did so when Phillip Seymour Hoffman died and again when Robin Williams took his own life.  We weren’t at odds about anything.  We were both devastated by the loss. But, I needed to have my say. I think many times adding my voice has much more to do with my own mental health than anyone else’s. Tracey’s… Read More

Bravery, Courage, Emotions, Fear

HOW TO KEEP CALM IN THE FACE OF CALAMITY

  I sit here writing this, about to write this, trying to write this and at the same time remain all grateful and trusty while I do it. I am grateful and I trust in many things, but the world now is in a crazy effing place. It’s totally insane if you ask me. I don’t know that the world has been exposed to such demonic behavior since the Holocaust. Well, indeed demonic behavior has been in the world, sadly… Read More

Emotions, Goals, Honesty, Living Fully

 NAUGHTY OR NICE

  It’s that time of year when we’re making our lists and checking them twice.   Here at G and T we end up making all sorts of lists. Lists trying to locate the headwaters of our issues; Lists of our goals, or mistakes, the wrongs we want to right and the things we are grateful for. And those are just a few. While many people start pondering turning over a new leaf on the strike of midnight on December 31st,… Read More