Start Strengthening Your Emotional Wellness Today

If you knew you would be in the fight of your life tomorrow, it would be too late to begin your physical fitness conditioning today. If you haven’t already been training, you will lose that fight—it’s the same way with our emotional fitness conditioning. At some point, life is going to knock you down because […]

Time’s Up

September 17 is designated as Time’s Up Day. Doesn’t it sound ominous? It is ominous because it can make the difference between your own Mental Freedom® and lifelong regrets. Last month, I was made all too aware of how short life is and what it could be like to leave this world with things left […]

Organ Donation-Be a Hero

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March is National Kidney Month, and I am so happy to report that my good friend, Sylvester Baugh, received the kidney that gave him a new lease on life on March 18, 2021. Last year at this very time, I remember looking at him and thinking I needed to prepare myself for his eventual death; […]

National Donate Life Awareness Month

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April is Donate Life Awareness Month.  I have personally been touched by the generosity of people who have given the gift of life, so I thought some personal stories would be more effective than a broad, general appeal to become an organ donor. I realize this is a scary time for most and you won’t […]

Suicide Prevention Day 2019

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World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10 .. It comes with a huge responsibility, should you accept it. Humans have a built-in self-preservation mechanism to maintain survival of the species. Can you imagine the despair and hopelessness it would take for a person to suicide? I can only imagine the depth of despair. In order […]

Grieving from a Choice Theory® Perspective

When someone we love dies, we go through a grief process that was best described by Elizabeth Kublar-Ross in her book, On Death and Dying. This process is made up of five stages—denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These stages can happen in any order and are not predictable . You can be experiencing […]

Starting Over

Starting over after the loss of a loved one is a monumental task that can feel overwhelming at times. Whether there has been a death, a divorce, or a separation from a friend, rebuilding your life is usually is necessary. Shock and denial are normally initial reactions after a loss, particularly if there was no […]

The Cycle of Life and Death

What did you do with your 24 hours today? When your time comes, will you have regrets? If it were today, are there things you left undone? Are there people to see, places to go, and relationships to mend? Tomorrow is not promised, what will you do today?