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Try this exercise. Name the thing bothering you the most right now. Don’t think about it - as soon as you read that statement, something immediately came to mind. Now ask yourself why that thing/situation/person is upsetting you. If you have a pen and paper handy, write the reasons down. Now ask yourself why those reasons matter. Why do they bother you? Write those answers down. Keep questioning, each time writing down what comes to mind.  After a few rounds of this you will

Years ago when I was keynoting to teenagers, I often got two different reactions to my speeches: A few teachers would come to me after my speech and say “That was great, but it might have been too heavy. These kids can’t handle what you said to them.” The teenagers themselves would come to me after my speech and thank me for talking about the stuff that they desperately WANTED to talk about, but that no one would let them acknowledge. The teens expressed such relief at being

Many years ago, as I struggled with PTSD following an employee committing fraud and then dying by suicide, my husband took me by the hand...

Think about the last time you felt frustrated. It’s very likely you had an expectation that wasn’t being met.  It could have been extra...