“I-Am-s” are statements of our deepest truths and longings. Recently I was reminded of my own I-Am-s when a client who had been emotionally stuck for a while came in with a list of her own. How I Got Started Many years ago, perhaps around 2001, I invested in meditation tapes from a company called […]
Chase Meaning Not Happiness: Year Three–Relationship Series
Maybe you’ve caught on by now: Our February Relationship Series is designed to take last month’s Start the New Year Well skills and apply them specifically to relationships. So why in the world would I suggest that you stop chasing happiness in your relationship? Our relationships are to provide us with joy and happiness, right? […]
Practice, Practice, Practice–Start The New Year Well Series
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, Practice, Practice! This joke was told often in my childhood home. Each of us Sander kids took music lessons of some sort, and we were all varsity athletes. So there was lots of practicing going on in our home. Indeed it could get loud if I was […]
Autumn Series: Tame Your Fears
Skill #3: Calm It Down Telling someone to “calm down!” actually never works—even when you say it to yourself. In fact, it makes a bigger mess. This marvelous skill, Calm It Down, is an invitation to take charge of what happens in your body when you need to manage a fear. We all have times […]