This book focuses on the attitudes and skills we need in order to let go of the past, embrace the new, cope with loss, and experience wisdom, authenticity, and bliss.
This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be take...
The cure for the pain is the pain. Unprocessed pain almost always leads to something much worse than pain. Opening ourselves up to our emotional reactions to that world and allowing ourselves to feel...
The English language contains the words poignant and bittersweet, but it is challenging to find other words to describe the complex emotional states we feel as we run out of time. Our inner experience...
Ten Common Beliefs of the JPI Refugees are ignorant and have no formal education.
Tax dollars go to teach refugees in their own languages. Actually, the concept of ELL is that our publicly funded schools teach newcomers English.
Suffering gives us empathy, while happiness gives us hope and energy.
Most of us met when we were in our vigorous thirties and forties. We were smart, energetic, and moving up. But now our energy was abating and we weren’t moving up anymore. Our conversations were about...
Just as Sylvia rated her pain, so can we rate our own stress on a ten point scale. When we first start doing all our stressors are eleven, but over time we learn that real tens are rare occurrences. M...
It seems counterintuitive that more choice leads to more depression. However, when we increase people's opportunities for control, we increase their expectations of control and their sense of responsi...
In his book The Pursuit of Happiness, psychologist David Myers reviewed research on the relationship between money and happiness. He found that once personal income had reached a stable but rather mod...
Great personal suffering can sometimes deepen our souls to the point they crack open and let in great beauty.
Dear sisters, I hope that we can experience bliss. I want us to sense how big life is—how intense, joyful, painful, complicated, and beautiful our lives can be. Let us embrace everything. This can be...
We accept our grandchildren for the unique beings they are. This acceptance gives them the confidence to feel they are worthy of the deep love they are given. It helps them see the universe as safe.
Psychic dismemberment, which is the loss of our identity, our ways of thinking, and our sense of self.
Happiness correlates with reasonable expectations.
Desire to heal.
Attributes of resilience.
We are the daughters of time, the children of mothers who fed us, rocked us, sang us songs, and kept us safe.
The Ability to Pay Attention