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As we learned last week, Saboteurs are negative mental habits that, although working against our best interest, try to convince us through their lies that they are working for us. By naming our Saboteurs and becoming aware of their script, we can limit their influence...

Over the last few years, we have conducted numerous presentations on managing stress. Certainly, our lives are made more difficult by events over which we have very little or no control. COVID and the war in Ukraine are significant examples. Stressors also come from...

Our recent Wellness Wednesday messages have examined how our values are revealed by our emotions. Matthew Kelly has said, “It is important to realize that you cannot journey to a new place  and at the same time stay where you are.” Translated into our focus on...

We know that our health and wellness are connected to our thoughts, which in turn create the experiences we have. Unfortunately, we also know that people are hard-wired to default, particularly in challenging times, to negative emotions such as fear, anger, disgust,...

With the celebration of Valentine's Day this week, I found myself thinking about what and who I value. The concept of values clarification came into the education world in the 1970’s. However, my introduction to clarifying values happened the 20 years before that....

If a basketball team has a game at 7:00 tonight, they would spend 30 minutes before the game warming up and preparing. If we are serious about handling conflict situations in a manner that allows us to journey toward peace, we have to warm up and prepare prior to...

As we learned from our mule friends last week, Toe-to-Toe is a well-established way of dealing with conflict that doesn’t get the best possible results. The problem isn’t conflict, but the way we SEE conflict. We can continue to see conflict the same old way…we are...

Peace, or the lack of peace, is often associated with conflict. Conflict occurs when two or more people or groups compete with each other in order to get what they desire. The mules in this picture illustrate conflict. The problem with conflict isn’t conflict. The...

We have all had the experience of “My way” versus “Your way.” I say “Yes” to my way and “No” to your way. This approach tends to divide us and prevents us from discovering meaningful and beneficial possibilities. When my nephew Nick was in high school, he participated...

As we search for strategies and practices that lead towards peace, keeping an open mind appears essential. While reflecting on this, I have become aware of a strategy I have practiced so frequently that it has become a negative mental habit. That habit, which is a...