Love is one of the most beautiful things one can experience in this existence. Whether it’s true romantic love or unconditional love of family and friends, it is the ultimate emotion. It’s my belief that once you truly love someone, you’ve established an emotional state that’s pretty permanent. That love will likely change throughout your life and be accompanied by other emotions (sometimes intensely opposite ones), but the love remains nonetheless. So what do you do when that ultimate emotion takes you on a ride you're not quite ready for?!
Continue reading...Friday, June 5, 2009
In a word, EVERYTHING!!!! If you don’t think love is pretty crucial to any meaningful emotional relationship, then I need to hear from you, because I’m certain to learn something! Don’t get me wrong, there’s all kinds of other stuff that’s important too: trust, kindness, respect, forgiveness, etc. But let’s not lose sight of the big picture, loving relationships need love. So if we can all agree to that, then why do so many relationships (of all kinds) seem to be in such turmoil??
Continue reading...Sunday, December 21, 2008
If you spend any time on the web site for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) you'll immediately realize that you've arrived at a place of joyous and uplifting information about the state of health in the U.S. OK, not so much. In reality you'll probably land on a page with some pretty damning statistical trends related to increases in childhood obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, HIV or any number of other health challenges.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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