Throughout our life we construct our own personal reality. Some of the reality is based on what we are taught, some of it is based on the messages we receive, and some of it is based on how we are hard wired. What is interesting to me is how tightly we hold to our reality, even if it causes us Read more…
“Cause I need freedom now, and I need to know how, to live my life as it’s meant to be.” –Mumford and Sons Living in our little shell can be very lonely. Sometimes being lonely is better than the potential pain that exists if we were to be exposed and rejected. But still, loneliness is painful. Isolation is painful. Being Read more…
As a researcher, I thumb though articles in journals all the time. Some of what I come across is interesting…other’s not so much. Recently I came across this article that begins to uncover the development of love in a relationship. Specifically, the researchers were curious whether men or women feel and declare love first. Traditional thought tells us that it Read more…
As I was driving to work the other day, I was lucky enough to catch an interview with Amity Gaige regarding her new book “Shroder.” The book revolves around a man who abducts his young daughter during a bitter custody battle, and it centers on the question of whether you have to be a “good person” in order to be Read more…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr. I ran into that quote quite a bit last week around the celebration of King’s desire for human rights. While he is speaking on a large level, I began to think of this quote on a Read more…
