Manifest Inner Strength Find Individual Truth Remember the “island of misfit toys” in Rudolph? The winter wonderland where all the oddball toys huddled in the cold with tear-streamed faces lamenting how once again Santa left them behind and they’d...
Healing with Acronyms
Healing with Acronyms: FOOL
Forget Others’ Opinions Laugh Even Shakespeare’s darkest tragedies infuse comic relief. Can we say Macbeth and the Porter in unison everyone. The town fool supplying tension-breaking buffoonery is a staple in all great drama. Laughter at follies, and...
Healing with Acronmys: QUIT
Quickly Uncover Inspiration Triumph We’ve all faced it—the desire to give up and quit. Sometimes the mountain seems too steep, the path too detoured with road blocks, the outcome while firmly in view just a tad out of reach. We’ve all been there...
Healing with Acronmys: PAST
Pull All Stuff Together And put it in a box. Can’t change the past. The past will come back to haunt you. Stop living in the past as the present is all we get that’s why it’s called the present for it’s the gift of today. We’ve all heard...
Healing with Acronyms: LIE
LIVE INTEGRITY EVERYDAY The Thompson Twins sang it best….lies are going to get you. And while both the band and song is retro today, the message still rings current. Lies will get you every time. It is just a matter of when and how. We all fib. We all...
Healing with Acronyms: FAIL
Find Another Idea Learn No one likes to fail. Let’s face it. But as they say, if at once you don’t succeed, try try, again. That is how you transform failure into a valuable lesson learned and into a success. For the only true way one fails, is if one...
Healing with Acronyms: GRIEF
Gratitude Remembrance Inspiration Eulogize Forever I had intended to write this week about a lighter topic and word—DORK. Unfortunately the reality inherent to the experience and the word itself, grief, struck fast and furiously. And as is often the case...
Healing with Acronyms: CRY
Comply Release Yield We know the rules. They've been drummed into our heads since before we could speak the word internet, let alone navigate it, and the repercussions of those words have pounded in our brains ever since every time we've felt the urge....
Healing with Acronyms: EGO
Express Genuineness Outwardly Ego—that three-letter four-letter word. Everyone’s got one. Yet everyone complains about everyone else’s. Ego as of late has gotten a bad rap. It has become synonymous with arrogance and a self-inflated sense of one’s value and...
Healing with Acronyms: STUPID
Send Tenderness Understanding Patience Inclusion Daily “Stupid is as stupid does.” One of the most memorable trademark lines from FORREST GUMP, it elicits laughter when said in context of the movie. And there is a gem to be found here as we all do stupid...