. . . there isn’t a guidebook for setting boundaries. Each of us has our own guide inside ourselves. If we continue to work at recovery, our boundaries will develop. They will get healthy and sensitive. Our selves will tell us what we need to know, and we’ll love ourselves enough to listen. —Beyond Codependency What do

Photo Credit There is a pattern to change. You begin moving in a particular direction, then you find a rest stop or simply an exit from the journey. Just except it but realize that, of course, no one actually lives at a rest stop or the exit area right off a highway. The stop — the pause

Photo Credit: Here, who got it from here (and I had to use since it captured my mood completely!) Apparently adults do not officially whine — only children. (I know this because google.com told me! …) However, apparently, they do. Especially this adult during the past 24 hours. To say I don’t have legitimate reasons for whining

  Emotional Intelligence (EI), Narcissism and Private versus Secret Author:  Stacy Kamala Waltman As is often the case, what comes up for one of my clients tends to be a recurring theme for just about everyone I coach during certain periods of time and unfortunately, I lived with and was engaged to a narcissist.  Right now, several clients are

I was sitting in a lecture theatre watching a man praying. For about four minutes nothing else happened, just the silent contemplation and measured movement of a Carthusian about his vocation. There was a murmur from other members of the audience: this wasn’t what they were expecting, a feeling of discomfort and unease. My companions

During the Easter break, I escaped the confines of the south of England and headed north. The North is where I grew up and while visiting friends and family, I took the opportunity to visit Hadrian’s Wall. I’d never been before, or at least, I don’t remember having been before. Given that this blog

The teaching, marking and exams boards are all done for the year and it is time for me to switch my brain back to research mode for the next three months. Helping me to do this in the coming weeks is a couple of conferences: the International Medieval Congress held, as always at Leeds, and

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