Communication

Having a boyfriend that you care about can be a very happy time in a person’s life. The relationship, beginning with dating, getting to know each other and meeting each other’s family and friends can be a stepping-stone to a…
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Okay, let’s say you’re in a relationship and it’s the kind of relationship you want to continue forever.  Sure, there are going to be some potholes in the road, but you want to do what you can to keep things…
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~There is nothing more negative to the spirit than someone who drains your energy. People who take energy from you in one form or another have a detrimental effect on your being. There are many ways in which your energy…
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It isn’t always easy to treat other people as you would like to be treated, especially people who cause you problems. Treating others with respect who have been vindictive to you, or always seem to throw hurdles in your path, takes…
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Consideration of what it takes to overcome someone’s passive aggressive behavior seems to set up an adversarial relationship. Overcoming sounds as if we’re attempting to conquer a behavior that is extremely complicated. At best we may only be able to…
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Remember how you felt in seventh grade, when all of a sudden your best friend stopped speaking to you? It hurt terribly, and you spent days wracking your brain, trying to puzzle out what wrong you possibly could have committed….
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“Thank goodness for that!” you sigh in relief as the person walks away from you, “I thought they would never go.” And, as they move out of sight you flop down on the nearest chair feeling totally exhausted. We have…
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It is interesting to stop for a moment during a hectic day and think about where all our energy is spent. Some is used for work and the million little tasks that must be done, some for home and the…
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We can all be both energy drainers and energy givers. If we are self aware enough, we know when we are giving and when we are draining and thereby have more control over how much of each we do. Not…
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To assume that it is easy to treat others the way you wish to be treated is to assume that everybody sees the world in the exact same way. In reality, this is far from the case. What is kind…
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Nosey neighbors. Peppermint-breath aunt Hilda with her red shoes, her sixties hairdo, who swears Elvis is somewhere in Vegas. A colleague at work who is Miss Gossip at the water cooler. Cousin Larry who always borrows, never pays back… We…
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You can’t really deal with rude neighbors. You have to learn to co-habitate beside your obnoxious next door dweller. It won’t be easy to resist dishing out your own brand of rudeness. Instinctively, you will want to retaliate against your…
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I just ended a relationship with a person who I finally came to the conclusion was too much of a drain on my mental well being. I found that spending time with him left me feeling exhausted and very depressed….
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Have you ever had a conversation with someone who was ranting an raving about their problems and afterward they skip off as if all is right with the world, yet you sit slumped over in your chair and almost depressed…
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The world is overflowing with people in need. Many have searched years for that something mysteriously out of reach and somehow still fail to fill an unexplainable emptiness. Lonely people explore the world for a companion to reach out a…
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Forgiveness Takes Courage “Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.” -Unknown We don’t always get what we ask for, and that includes forgiveness. It’s hard to go through life knowing that a…
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If you think you can do without the company of other people you are sadly mistaken. Unless you want to live a life of solitude then, as a person , you must be prepared to give off some of your…
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In order for anyone to drain our energy we have to have something within us that allows it to happen. There aren’t any victims in this world. We create our reality 100%. If a psychic vamp is slurping up our…
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At some point or other, most of us will encounter a person who has the trait of being passive-aggressive in their words, actions, or both. These people are the ones that smile sweetly as they assassinate you. They are terribly…
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Emotional Vampires, that’s what I call them. People who suck the life right out of you. We all know, or have known, at least one. Someone who is an emotional black hole, who has the ability to virtually absorb every…
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Once you let an energy drainer know you are onto their sick game and call them on it, you will never hear the end of it. They thrive on high drama, will act hurt and insulted, beyond belief, then try…
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Personal time is very necessary for your happiness and well-being, and must be worked into your schedule each day.  Set aside one to two hours a day to care for yourself, have fun, relax, learn a new hobby, or have…
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If you are in the dating game, chances are you have run into a woman or two who could be considered high maintenance. Those are never the girls that you want to date, and while they might seem nice at…
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Everybody needs to make a living, and salespeople are no different.  However, some of them go about it in the wrong way.  They push so hard to make a sale that they wind up alienating you to the point where…
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In certain professions it is imperative that we manage to remember names the first time we hear them. For example when teaching a class on a supply basis you may have only met the children for the first time that…
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Life is a juggling act. We have work, the children and their activities, appointments, social commitments, animals to look after and housework that’s never finished. There’s always one more thing on the list to do so more and more often…
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Sometimes it seems like “me” time is at a premium. Some of us get to the point where we aren’t quite sure what that even means. Days, weeks, and months go by when it seems like the demands of family,…
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All work and no play makes Jack and Jill a very dull pair indeed. The secret of success on every level – business, personal and financial – is balance. Although the demands of modern life dictate that we must spend…
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One of my favorite memories of childhood is gathering around the dinner table to eat each evening. My mom or dad, whoever had more time that particular day, would prepare a meal, usually pork chops or grilled chicken or steak…
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Some people grow up in an environment where by whatever they do is never good enough and never appreciated, all the accumulation of not being appreciated and not knowing how to do anything right gives birth to a low self…
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