What Makes Human Connection Authentic?
Human connection is an energy exchange between people who are paying attention to one another. How do we transmit or exchange that energy? Is it through the words we speak? Do our gestures, physical contact such as a hug, handshake or eye contact play a part in the...
Underestimating Solitude’s Value in a Pandemic
Underestimating solitude's value in a pandemic has revealed much about our fears of self. Here is a basic definition of Solitude: The state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude. A remoteness from habitations, as of a place; absence of human...
Connection – A Personal Shift in the Paradigm
Connection/Connect - to join, link or fasten together; unite or bind. To establish communication between; put in communication. To associate mentally or emotionally. To be in harmony with another person, one's work, etc. During this strange time in our history when...
An Apocalypse: We Are Living It.
Apocalypse - A definition I recently watched a 2015 National Geographic documentary series entitled "Who is God" hosted by Morgan Freeman. His mission was to travel around the world tracing the evolution of the belief in God. He met with religious leaders of many...
Shedding Rugged Individualism for Connection
Unrealistic Expectations In my early 30's I worked with a therapist to help me with some relationship dilemmas. At the base of those dilemmas were my unrealistic expectations of others; a common toxic thread in many relationships and daily life. The therapist caught...
Exhausted
I am aware that my mind needs some tending. Because in its current overly active and compulsive state it is sending me to the brink of exhaustion.