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GROWTH
PARADOXICAL
COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP
Sometimes events that make
a lasting impression upon one’s soul and memory happen
at times of emotional trauma and special needs. I have been
blessed with a number of events, and one of the most recent
I will share with you. <read
more>
ACCEPTANCE
Focusing on a wide range of personal crises--losses of a loved
one, jobs or careers, money, health, youth, social status,
relationships, opportunities, hopes and dreams-- Dr. Watson
(a board certified psychiatrist from Santa Ana, CA) takes
issue with conventional “stages of grieving” theories,
contending that such an approach may actually impede healing
by promoting excess intellectualization. <read
more>
A
LONG AND WINDING ROAD
There is no subtle
way to lead into what I need to write.
A
little before midnight on Saturday evening, the 21st of January
at a "big band" dance, immediately following two
swing numbers, my husband looked at me and said, "I'm
feeling dizzy," swayed slightly and collapsed onto the
dance floor. <read more>
TWO
LIVES
For what was beginning to feel like forever, I’d been
waiting for closure to occur as the crowning achievement of
mourning the loss of my beloved husband.
I’d
come through the first year with flying colors, or so I thought.
People told me, “You’re doing so well,” whatever
that was supposed to mean--that I wasn’t bawling my head
off in public and talking about him every waking moment? That
I could function, even smile, laugh, quip and be silly? .<read
more>
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