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Discouragement takes root when we fail to celebrate the mini successes in our lives and we let the secular world define for us what is successful.  For example, while stay-home moms love spending [...]

“Discouragement” tops the list as one of Satan’s favorite tools, and we invite discouragement when we dream big.  Discouragement creates a dark cloud over us, stops us from acting, and blocks us [...]

Last year I had the astonishing experience of winning the Triathlon Cup series at the Wichita YMCA.  The Triathlon Cup consisted of seven indoor sprint triathlons followed by a championship [...]

I overheard him make the plans.  On his way home from work he picked up the perfect wrist corsage.  He wore his nicest suit, and waved to the kids and I as he drove to her house to pick her up [...]

The individual heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and Valentine’s Day cards provided my kids a greater-than-expected distraction from eating breakfast and finishing their morning preparations for [...]

With “clarity” you can recognize the disjoint inherent in attempting to relate to a prickly person.  Clarity helps you see things for what they are.  “Focus” helps us detach from the prickly [...]

To navigate the emotional maze of the prickly person, after “clarity”, your best tool is “focus”. Part of what causes prickly people to be so prickly is a disordered lifestyle or world view. [...]

Prickly people resemble porcupines with sharp quills pointing in all directions.  Get too close and you might get poked, so you may spend your time dancing to avoid the stab.  The verbal jab, [...]

My pet name “Interruption PTSD” explains the  condition of your mind replaying the negative past sensation of being constantly interrupted, making you think it continues to go on when negative [...]

The birth of our first child awed me with the beauty of new life.  But, an unimaginable degree of sleep deprivation accompanied the bliss.  Yet the uncomfortable experience of never being able to [...]