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The Emotional Roller Coaster: Hold on Tight!!!

Monday, August 24, 2009

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The Emotional Roller Coaster: Hold on Tight!!!

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?!

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What’s Love Got To Do With It?!

Friday, June 5, 2009

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What’s Love Got To Do With It?!

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??

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It’s Not You, It’s…

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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It’s Not You, It’s…

Have you ever had someone end a relationship with that cliché “It’s not you it’s me”? What a line huh? You’re like come on already, just be real with me! Have the courage to level with me, instead of feeding me this drivel.

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The Art of Listening

Monday, February 16, 2009

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The Art of Listening

Do you think you're a good listener? Come on, keep it real! Be really honest with yourself. Now that you have an answer in your head, consider this: how might the people you spend the most time with answer that question about you? You know, your co-workers, your friends, your family, your significant other, your children . . . how would they answer? Would their answer be drastically different from yours? I've always thought of myself as a good listener, but recently decided to reexamine the question for myself.

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