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How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection Without Seeing a Therapist in 2024
7 simple steps to calm your fears and let the real you shine! Fear of rejection comes in many forms. Whether you feel it going on a first date, turning in reports to your boss, speaking in public, facing up to peer pressure, or going to social events, fear of...
Harry Chapin
All his life was a circle. Harry Chapin’s life began in NYC, was lived making other peoples’ lives better, and came to an end on the Long Island Expressway 40 years ago today when the Volkswagen Rabbit he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer. He was...
Meditation in This Moment
We may not realize it, but our day consists of a series of moments. Each moment brings with it a decision that either brings us nearer to or further from our desires. If our mind is preoccupied, rushing, deflecting, avoiding, foggy, distracted or otherwise not in sync...
The Art of Knowing When to Stay Stuck
I come from a family of do-ers. My mom was a nurse and high-ranking officer in the Army and my dad, a private, owned and ran the family flooring business. I grew up watching my parents solve problems together, stretch a dollar, have huge financial setbacks and somehow...
Why I Do What I Do
One of my earliest memories is of taking my father’s temperature, giving him an injection and tapping his knee with one of those hammer-like tools. Since we didn’t keep lollipops in the house, I think I handed him a Scooter pie from the refrigerator at the conclusion...
Middle School Scars
To the girls in middle school who left peanuts on my desk with a note that read, “To the girl with the big ears, the circus is waiting,” it took me a few decades, but I’m over it. Has it happened to you, too? I’d venture to guess it has. Very few of us made it through...