Adaptive Capacities

Adaptive Capacities

How’s your supply of adaptive capacities? Your adaptive capacities make-up your resource pile of coping skills. All those people, behaviors and action items that restore you. Ground you. Allow you to keep going when the demands of life are telling you to pack it in...

Loving the Life You Have

I swear it happens weekly. I open my mouth and some clerk or new patient or person on the street asks me where I am from. I feel like a transplant from a foreign land.  Even though I left decades ago and have successfully eradicated the “ya’lls” and...

Finding Love Anyways

I have one of those persons in my life. You know the type. Controlling, dominant, critical, condescending, dismissive and disrespectful. Out-and-out emotionally abusive. It would be one thing if I could just say “good riddens” and give them my backside....