“It could be worse” is a phrase often used after someone describes a difficult situation or even just a bad moment. While many can attest to this statement and I have used it myself often, I am also finding it important to recognize that struggling and suffering is relative. Working in the social services field, I have come across a Read more…
I recently reflected on different phases of my life and thought through the different themes and connections. I have faced many challenges and difficult decisions both personally and academically. It turns out that when you attend school for 18 years, it becomes nearly impossible to separate the line between your education and your immediate life. On a bad day, you may struggle Read more…
Today I want to share brief descriptions of four kinds of love, by Milton Erickson. I feel they are important to know and distinguish, in order to assess how you interact others and your own relationships. 1. The infantile type of love, “I love me.” 2. I love the me in you. “I love you becaue you are my brother, my mother, my Read more…
I have always tried to look back on my past and consciously not feel any regret. This is not to say that I have lived my life perfectly — It is because I know for a fact that I cannot go back and change things. Thus, feelings of regret would only serve to make me feel negatively over something I Read more…
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance and write poems and suffer and understand, for all of that is life. – J. Krishnamurti I chose this quote to share today Read more…
