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May 24, 2019

130 SelfWork: The Power of Failure and What You Can Learn From Flying a Kite

No one particularly likes to fail. And what does it have to do with flying a kite? In this episode, we’ll talk about the power that failure can have in your life and what can help you learn from it. Because failure is inevitable. And far too many people shame themselves for failure and then […]


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Published on May 24, 2019 07:04

May 17, 2019

129 SelfWork: Challenging and Changing Negative Self-Talk

We’re talking self-talk here today. What is it? And what can you do about it? A lot of people tell me they kinda “know” what it is, but haven’t a clue how to change it. It feels as if it’s too elusive. How could you possibly rein in what your mind is telling you about […]


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Published on May 17, 2019 04:00

May 10, 2019

128 SelfWork: What Happens When You Quit Perfectly Hiding Depression? You Find Grief.

  Dr. Jennifer Ashton of ABC News was interviewed this week as she revealed the suicidal death of her ex-husband. She stated quite clearly that he displayed none of the signs of depression that she had studied in medical school. None of them. I need to read her new book on surviving the suicide of […]


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Published on May 10, 2019 03:26

May 3, 2019

127 SelfWork: The Two Masked Marks of Manipulation aka Stonewalling and Gaslighting

There are many ways of creating problems in relationships, but there are two manipulations that are sometimes harder to see than out and out contempt or defensiveness. They are stonewalling, basically “the silent treatment” and gaslighting, when someone tries to undermine your own perceptions to the point where you distrust your own mind. The first […]


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Published on May 03, 2019 04:15