At this time in the year, people often mention feeling a bit flat and uninspired. Those Christmas holidays feel like a distant memory, as do those New Year’s resolutions about the type of person you were going to be and the things you were going to do this year. So [...]
How many emotional responses have you noticed so far today? Gratitude and love saying good bye to your family as you leave for work, or frustration as you are stuck in wet weather traffic? Maybe anticipation for an enjoyable meal with friends this evening or anxiety that you have [...]
Too much to do? Not enough time? Feeling frantic/overwhelmed? Feeling I’m not doing anything properly? How many of these comments above resonate with you? It’s a dilemma that we are hearing more often, and it seems, more intensely. Many people have described to us how the dilemma of [...]
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.” – Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love. Feeling connected to others is an absolute human need. Social psychologists call this connection “embeddedness”. Holding a strong sense of embeddedness with people who are important to [...]