Maybe you are enjoying the spring flowers, the extended days of light hours, the birds singing.
Happy Spring!
Maybe you are frustrated with the rain and mud.
Believe me, it is muddy in my garden!
Maybe there is even more involved with your emotions. Maybe they are still as dark as night… or just very gray…
Have you got the spring blues? Are you tired and ready to scream? Try my Past, Present Future Model (PPF)to reflect and change your attitude for the better.
Read MoreI have been thinking a lot about stress and trauma. Part of that has to do with two books I have been reading and other reason is that my coaching organization, EASC, had an online meeting about this topic last week at our monthly online meeting.
Read MoreI am Looking Forward and Dealing with Today – being grateful in everything.
I hope you remember the PPFs model. Past-Present-Future.
Remember and be grateful for the past, even the hard times.
Savor the present – the good and the hard parts.
Look forward to the future with hope and anticipation.
Read MoreIt IS dark – How do you deal with darkness?
Darkness outside can be a metaphor for what is going on – inside and outside of us.
For me, the darkness is outside.
I have a friend, E who was home in the Ukraine when the war began over a month ago. He struggled to get his family out and to Switzerland where he lives and works. I saw him for the first time since yesterday – and his inside is traumatized. Naturally so. It is dark outside me, and dark inside him.
There are more stories, and I don’t want to go far here, but I have other U. friends who are here and in other places…
Even if it is dark from the time to time, there are things we can do to help make the dark better:
PPFs
Read MoreIt’s a season where we think we should be grateful but what can we be grateful for?
There’s bad news all around starting with a continuing pandemic (now we have delta and omicron) and ending with wars and rumors of wars, famine, diseases (other than covid) and floods.
STOP, THINK, FEEL, REFLECT – and BE GRATEFUL.
Read MoreWhat’s to be grateful for during covid-19 and 2020? Here are tips to reflect, to remember and to shift from negative thoughts to positive ones by being grateful.
Read MoreUse the PPF model to deal well with COVID more restrictions and possible lockdown. Remember and be grateful for the past. Savor the good things in the present and anticipate the future in hope.
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