Why People Are Jerks By Z Zoccolante Recently I witnessed an attack at the dog park. A large dog, who shouldn’t have been at the park, caught a little dog (who sat on my lap at that time) by the front paw, chomped down and wouldn’t let go. I couldn’t move my body fast enough to pull the little dog out of the way and in a second the little dog’s owner was pulling at her dog and screeching. The large dog’s owner couldn’t...
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The #1 Thing You Want on Your Gravestone By Z Zoccolante (Listen to the audio of this post in the blue box below!) When we first meet someone we smile or shake hands, and exchange names. The next question after that is frequently the same, “What do you do?” However we reply, sets the stage for the creation of ourselves in this person’s head. If we say we’re a lawyer synapses fire. Different synapses fire if we call...
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Guest Post – 4 Lifestyle Changes to Help You Overcome SAD Irritability, fatigue, and depression are common feelings during the fall and winter for people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). As people with SAD know, you can’t just “snap out of” those negative feelings you’re having. As temperatures begin to cool off, if you find that you’re struggling with SAD, here are some steps you can take to help...
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4 Ways to Help Yourself and Others Through Grief By Z Zoccolante (Listen to the audio version of this post in the blue box below) At some point, all of us will be touched by grief. It can be unexpected, like a knife flaying our hearts into tiny parcels on the floor. It can be long and enduring. It can be expected or anticipated, but unless you’ve had something disappear from your grasp, the experience evades you. Until you’ve...
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Guest Post – Mental Illness and Addiction: Who is At Risk? Mental illness and addiction are commonly found together, whether the addiction or the mental illness came first. Not everyone who has a mental illness will develop an addiction nor will everyone with an addiction develop a mental illness. However, it is important to know if you or a loved one is at risk for either of these detrimental conditions so that you may...
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Forgiveness is a Choice By Z Zoccolante (Listen to the audio of this wonderful post in the blue box below!) It’s my belief that at our deepest level we want to forgive those who’ve hurt us. But instead we sometimes hold on, white knuckling through the pain of circumstance, as though the tightness of our grip equates to us winning the most spacious prison. Holding on feels like control when we’re spinning down. We...
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