THE LIFE COACH SCHOOL PODCAST – Episode 10 “Could it be that all along, I have lived the life I should have lived and that everything I’ve done has been what I should have done?” I resisted this idea, at first. Not that it was a new idea. This is something that both Brooke and …

THE LIFE COACH SCHOOL PODCAST – Episode 10 “What if you didn’t resist was IS?” In yesterday’s post, we started off by considering how much time and energy we use resisting pain or avoiding pain. What about the time and energy we use to resist what IS? When I go scuba diving, I think about …

THE LIFE COACH SCHOOL PODCAST – Episode 137 We spend so much of our lives trying to avoid pain and trying to get out of pain. How much time and energy would I have if I didn’t spend so much of it trying to escape pain? Isn’t that crazy to think about? A few examples. …

ALL IN – Episode 95 In Genesis chapter 1, after the Lord created light and separated the light from the darkness, after He created the sky and the earth, after He created the water and the land, after He created the grass and herb and fruit and tree, after He created the sun and moon and …

ALL IN – Episode 95 Ten years ago S Michael Wilcox lost his wife to cancer. In this interview I’m sharing with you today, Brother Wilcox talks about his wife and his relationship with her, after her death. I want to spend an entire post tomorrow on MONDAY MARRIAGE MATTERS talking about some of the …

Sixteen or seventeen years ago, when Bry and I moved to NYC, we left our families and friends and we moved into a new home where we were welcomed by new friends who very much became our family, in NYC and even after. From child-bearing to church responsibilities to the loneliness you feel in a …

A friend sent this to me this week. Very timely. In an evening class at Stanford University,, the last lecture was on the mind-body connection – the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker was the head of psychiatry at Stanford, and he said, among other things, that one of the best things a man …

THE LIFE COACH SCHOOL PODCAST – Episode 229 I listened to this podcast two times today. The principle is a review: You create your own future. But in slightly different words. I am copying most of Brooke’s exact words in the blogpost today, for a good read when you are uncertain about your future, or …

BETTER THAN HAPPY – Episode 267 Quick review from yesterday’s post: When we don’t get invited, if we don’t manage our brains, we can fall into shame, I must not be fun enough or they would have invited me, or judgement/resentment, They are so mean, I would have never left anyone out. Both shame and …

BETTER THAN HAPPY – Episode 267 This week, I got invited. I am on a girls’ trip to the Virgin Islands with friends from NYC. But sometimes I don’t get invited. I wasn’t invited to Erica’s birthday party in Jr High. I wasn’t invited to Pam’s summer party in High School. But even now. Sometimes …