Making Every Second Count: The Art of the "High-Speed, High-Heart" Conversation

This new thing.

Practice the Pause: When our cup is full of gratitude, it’s hard for anything else to get in the way!

Life's Rollercoaster: Riding Change with Your Family

The OODA loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act

AAAAAHHHHH!!. I heard the sound, and I was up off the couch before I processed what was going on.

When Everything Feels Urgent: How Do You Even Start?

Dog Ate My Homework: Self-Regulation When Life (or Your Dog) Derails Your Day

Well, sure, tone, and words matter, of course. But that idea that we could wind up labeling someone – defining someone – by the way their personality made us feel. Eeew. How many times have I done that? I’m not sure I want to count.

Discovering that we had misunderstood something, made a mistake, given a wrong answer or reached a conclusion based on partial information can produce feelings of inadequacy, shame, fear of failing again.