And we survive until we thrive. This too, as my mother used to say, shall pass. Hang in there.

We don’t want to complain, but we need to allow ourselves to feel our feelings.  Social animals are not meant to be separated like this.

Is life difficult or do we just take it that way. Hands-down – it’s difficult! Let’s talk about it.

What do you say to a parent who is grieving the loss of her child? What to say when faced with the living evidence of the nightmare no parent wants to face. Here are some words that help.

Life is like that. When the crisis/meltdown/crash happens, there are people who can support us and encourage us, but we and only we can turn to face the demon that caused us to run in the first place. We and only we can look it in the eyes, stare it down, demand to be delivered the message and, finally, accept delivery of it.

Christmas is a paradoxical time, isn’t it?  It’s a happy time.  Strike that.  It’s supposed to be a happy time.  Strike that too. For some, it was once a happy time and now it’s not.  Not anymore…

August 17th is the 3rd Anniversary of the worst day of my life. My son Alex died that day in 2012. Anniversaries. You make your way through another year and then, 365 days later, you find yourself..

I’m very happy to introduce my brother, Allan Abbass, who has just published his first book! You may remember meeting him in this post. I invited him to tell us about the career path that led to..

I have mentioned already that I’ve been taking a Positive Psychology course  at Udemy.com (which I highly recommend). On re-listening today I picked up something I missed on the first listen. The instructor is talking about the..