Depression has become a global epidemic. As of 2018, “Our World in Data” reported 3.4 percent of the global population, or 264 million people were diagnosed with depression.…
I can’t tell you how many times, I have exhausted myself moving heaven and earth in an attempt to force a specific outcome that I thought was best. In…
There’s only one guarantee in life and that is that you will die one day. Nobody likes to talk about death. It makes people squirm, avoid eye contact,…
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. In the past two weeks, my website was down for days. I had to buy a new computer. I unknowingly spent…
Not to be confused with self-pity, complacency or arrogance, self-compassion involves acknowledging your own suffering, faults, and mistakes and responding with kindness, caring, and understanding, without any judgment…
After taking care of my brother as he wasted away and died from AIDs, the end of my 18-year marriage to my high school sweetheart in an ugly…
While driving around the other day, I was playing some old CDs I haven’t listened to in ages. One of them was the British singer-songwriter Dido’s No Angel which…
The dishwasher overflowed last night, you woke up to a kitchen floor full of suds and were late to work. You found out two days ago that the mole…
More and more these days, I find myself going back to quote by Mathama Ghandi “Be the change you want to see in the world.” This week, the…
Black is black and white is white. In between the two, are all kinds of shades of gray. Agreed? Right is right and wrong is wrong. What is…
Merriam Webster defines compassion as the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” To me, it means giving someone a break -…