Your BLEEP Is Drowning Me in Stress Hormones
“My wife says this is not rocket science, but I am an electrical engineer, and it’s rocket science to me!” my client proclaimed. Curiously, I waited. “Surely you know what I’m talking about. This thing where you say, ‘If anger walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, … it’s BLEEP (or whatever you […]
A New Look At Patience As A Gift to Those We Love
“I heard a preacher say one time that’s an invitation for trials and tribulations. So, I certainly don’t want to pray for any patience. But my husband said I’m in desperate need of some!” I had to laugh when my client came in with that one on their lips…and in her heart. Patience. It’s something […]
How Champions Handle the Aftermath of An Argument to Ensure a Rich, Fulfilling Relationship
“I can’t say anything right or do anything right so why should I even work on this marriage?” my client began as he plopped into the chair. It’s amazing how many times I hear this every week. Even as little as 25 years ago, there were almost always major attempts for reconciliation between arguments or disagreements, […]
Evidence That Your Dream Is from the Champion Within
“Just about the time I think I’ve settled into my current job…and my life … these crazy thoughts and dreams about what I’d love to do pop up again. I don’t understand why I can’t just settle in and be content?” My client had done extensive work in resurrecting her Champion within. Yet I understood […]
Questions That Are Signals from Your Champion Deep Within!
“Yeah … I’m just livin’ the dream!” This, all too often, is a repeated punch-clock phrase allocated to the emotional-negative-pile, which is almost … NO! … it IS … our national ‘9 to 5’ stuck on the hamster wheel joke-line at work. Like many of my clients, he was stuck in doubt and insecurity at […]
Champions Know the Power in “Better Together”
“It’s been a rough road for us, so we decided to call it quits after over 20 years of marriage. But since we’ve been apart, we both have come to realize how much better our lives are together. Now, what do we do?” My client was truly distressed. And although I totally understood the distress, […]
The Unconditional Love of A Champion
“All I ever wanted my entire life was unconditional love. I reached out to a mentor from church, in tears about his most recent departure, and my mentor said: “Unconditional, love does not exist! And you need to get help for your codependency!” After listening carefully to her lifelong dream of being loved, a long-term […]
The Remorse of A Champion
“You struck a nerve when you spoke about remorse in our session last week. It went through me like a shockwave!” Last week I wrote about the couple who came to build their ego strength together, and shortly after, the husband returned to talk about remorse. He called it a shockwave. It must’ve hit a […]
How Champions Build Ego Strength
How A Champion Builds Ego Strength “There is absolutely no way that I’m going to let him come and have you help him build his ego strength when he’s beaten mine to a pulp! So we’re doing it together!” Last week I shared about the man whose wife had told him that he had an […]
The Ego Strength of A Champion
“I am so confused! My wife tells me, that I’ve got an ego bigger than Dallas, like. Then today she told me my ego strength is below ground zero … and the two needed to flip-flop! WTH?!” I had to laugh, because the way people throw around the word “ego” in pop psychology is indeed […]