Adjusting My Jetpack Joyride with Mindfulness
We need to feel like our lives are meaningful, to ourselves, our family, and others.
Health and fitness begin in your mind. Can you eat better? Can you exercise 3 – 5 times a week? Can you give your own body the love you’d like to shower on a partner? Health is your number one commodity as you get older. Stay healthy by taking little steps towards a better, stronger, you.
- Emotional Variability: Healthier Living Through Mindful Awareness
- Patience, Mindfulness, and the Slow Road to a Healthy Relationship
- 5 Health Factors to Prevent or Lessen Seasonal Depression: Get Support
- Facing Health Issues Alone; Sometimes You Just Want Someone to Hold Your Hand
- Loving the Body: Size, Weight, Color, Age, Fitness, Happiness
- Self-Care and Fitness: How You Treat Yourself Says More than You Think
- ME Cycles and Wondermints: Why Is Self-Care So Difficult?
- Rebuilding Myself Into the Person I Was Before We Married
Fitness and health are the currency of growing old. Let’s do it with intention. Don’t hope to catch up later, get on a health kick, eat better, sleep better, love better. Your fitness and health are the most important things in your life. (Maybe after mental health, in my case.)
Pie vs. Pot: Self-Regulation In the Limitless Era
Finding the balance in our lives requires self-awareness and the discipline, time, and energy to carry out our creative plans.
Followed by the Black Dog (of depression)
One of the most pivotal moments in recovery is admitting to yourself that depression is a problem. For me, isolation is pretty deep on the list of symptoms. By the time I'm isolating and fucking up at work, the other mechanics of depression are in full bloom.
Read This If Nobody Texted You “Good Morning Sunshine” Today
The thrill of getting to a second date... Well, don't blow it. Just be cool. Don't lead to fast or too far. Take your signals from your date. Listen intently for emotional intelligence. Are they telling stories about past relationships, or future ideas, or work, or working out?
5 Myths and 5 Truths About Online Dating Today
I hope you meet a lot of nice people out there. But don't be fooled by their looks, their profile statements, or their fluent email banter. Go for the face-to-face meeting with as little hassle and energy as possible. If it becomes difficult to land the date, for whatever reason, move on. If they wanted to meet they would also be trying to make it happen, not giving excuses.
Pura Vida: Finding and Sharing Our Eternal Optimism
In this sacred life, we have a limited number of hours in our day. The same number of hours as every other being in our space-time continuum. By checking in with your intentions and actions on a regular basis you can begin adjusting your life towards the life you want.
Discovering and Recovering Love w/ a New Partner
What you do together is life. What you think about doing together is imagination. Bringing those to ideas together into all the things you like to do, anticipate doing in the near future, and aspire to do as part of your long-term goals... All of this is part of building and nurturing a relationship for the future.
Reaching a Moment of Peace and Happiness As a Single Dad
Some days it is good to just stop and say "thank you" to your higher power, your family, your partner. Today is that day. I'm marking a high-point in my life.