Posts Tagged "driving"
Loss or Security – Which Is More Real to You?
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Feelings are important guides for personal growth. When you hold an adaptive belief (a belief that was important for your survival as a child but no longer serves you), feelings arise that you cannot miss because they are always the ones you don’t like. Recently I have been examining my need for safety and uncovering just how insecure I feel in life, so it’s no surprise that...
Read MoreSiblings: Friends or Foes?
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My sister and I (pictured) have always been best friends. Even as children, we never fought as often or as bitterly as I saw in my friends’ households, or as a babysitter now in clients’ homes. When I mentioned this smugly to my mother, Sandy, she responded matter-of-factly, “I did that deliberately.” She told me that when she saw us arguing, she would approach the...
Read MoreUnshattering Your Confidence
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About a year ago a close friend had a car accident. She was driving in a parking lot at a large shopping mall, stopped at a stop sign, then pulled out to cross an esplanade (2 lanes each way with bushes planted in a divider). Just past the divider she got hit on the right side behind the front passenger seat by a big, black Suburban. It was in the left-hand lane hidden by the bushes. My...
Read More“CAN DOs” Work For All Ages
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You don’t have to psychoanalyze your child to offer CAN DOs. Just turn it over to the child with our all-purpose statement, “Hmm. Must be something you can do,” and see what comes back. If all you get back is a blank stare, offer some CAN DOs of your own by asking yourself, “What else would work?” For a young child breaking things out of curiosity, you might try: “You can...
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