Category: Quality Living

Safe Harbor

I want to discuss a fundamental skill, tool and value in couples relationships. I will call this ‘creating a Safe Harbor.’ Safe harbor means that you, my partner, can be safe here. It means you, my love, can be uniquely you and expect love, support, appreciation and acceptance for your uniqueness.  It means that I…


What We Feel and What We Think Doesn’t Matter

Try this for controversial:  What we feel and what we think doesn’t matter.  Boy, I’m sure the title alone has scared some people off my web-site.  🙂 This sounds as bad as slapping a baby!  But I want to talk about manifesting for a moment, and I plan to make it clear why feelings and…


Self Acceptance

Self -acceptance means we stop suffering by our own hand.  Sometimes suffering is just that. Nothing more or less. Nothing to learn, nothing to get, nothing to do… something that makes us all human. Of course, that is not wallowing in it, but there is place for compassion — for self and for others ……


On Being Helpful

The most helpful thing we can do for others is love them where they are and model what is possible by living our own lives more fully. Loving someone right where they are can be an act of faith and courage. Faith because you must let go of your idea of where someone is supposed…


Commitment

I used to think commitments were things I gave to other people so that they could hold me accountable for something. Or sometimes I made a commitment to do something I didn’t want to do because I thought I should — and the commitment would force me to do it. Keeping those commitments made me…