joyful living - the BLOG
For the stressed and the overworked!
How tired are you ending up in the same old story?
What if I told you that you could change that story and jump into a new one that brings genuine joy?
Sounds divine, doesn’t it? Follow along and feel the ease!
Category
- Agency
- Analysis Paralysis
- Anger and Depression
- Anxiety Stress & Fear
- Balance
- Burning the candle
- Burnout
- Change
- Dealing with Urgency
- Difficult Choices
- Doubt
- Drive
- Emotional awareness
- Empowerment
- Empowerment and Living
- Epigenetics
- Expectation
- Faith
- Gaining agency in your life
- Healing
- Hope
- Inspiration
- Introversion
- Leadership
- Living Your Dream
- Living with pain
- Multitasking
- Optimism
- Overcoming emotional pain
- Personal Boundaries
- Personal Strengths
- Resilience
- Self-reliance
- Shame
- Trauma
- Victim Mentality
- Vulnerability
- Worry
- avoiding conflict
- balance
- being alone
- conflict resolution
- connection
- dealing with emotions
- decluttering
- duty and guilt
- emotional eating
- emotional pain
- empathy
- energy
The Comfort of Agreement, The Courage of Disagreement
I came across 2 quotes this week that I wanted to combine. One is from David Brooks: Fighting is for fascists. Democracy is about persuasion. The other is from Emerson, and is the quote of the week below.
I heard David Brooks say the above in an interview he did with Jeffrey Goldberg. He was referring to the depressing explosion of fighting between friends and family of different political persuasions. …
Perfect Humans
Is it my imagination, or are people more sensitive to everything? In politics, I rarely hear people who disagree with one another have measured discussions; more often, it’s about taking sides and vilifying the other side and the other person. In meetings, same thing: it isn’t enough to simply dislike someone’s words or stance without making them a bad person in our minds.
Transforming Conflict: A Path to Understanding and Connection
Conflict-aversion is something many of us feel: we’d rather get along and feel safe and comfortable than get into an argument with another. That isn’t necessarily what conflict has to look or feel like, but that is how many of us think about it.
Conflict is scary and we’d rather avoid it.