Holding Hands and Sticking Together

Holding Hands and Sticking Together

“Red Rover, Red Rover, Let Mary Ruth come over!” we screamed across the elementary school yard. The remaining girls in the line sighed relief. They were glad it wasn’t their name being invoked because our brutal reputation was solidly intact. This was long before...
Practicing Relationships

Practicing Relationships

Do you ever wish you could practice relationships? Try new things where the stakes are low. Make mistakes, learn, come back again, make more mistakes and learn more. Stretch your comfort zone. Take in love, spit it out and be loved again anyway. Take a risk. Learn to...
Mow Your Own Lawn

Mow Your Own Lawn

Stop looking at your neighbor’s yard. You have your own damn lawn to mow. If you keep peering over the fence, you will not only neglect your own grass, but you will make up in your head that they have something you don’t. That their grass doesn’t...
Relational vs. Intimate

Relational vs. Intimate

Is being relational the same thing as being intimate? Someone asked this great question in my training group this week. First off, you do know me enough by now to know that being intimate is not about sex. Sex is sex. Intimacy is about emotional connection. Being...