Category: Addiction
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In America You Are Allowed To Say NO!!!!!
“Two things define you; your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.” In my article on March 2, 2014 and chapter two in my book Backbone Power The Science of Saying No, I speak about the importance of being able to say No when you mean No. After listening to Elliot Rodger’s horrific video, I…
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Backbone Power
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“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” Gordon A Eadie Why do I need a backbone? I just have my simple little life. I don’t aspire to be famous. Hmmm! Everyone’s simple little life is going to be given an opportunity to take a stand for something, someone, some passion, some principle,…
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ABUSE!! And what would you do??
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The Grand Jury file on reports filed against Sandusky in the Penn State Sex abuse scandal illustrates some of the most egregious rationalizing (right up there with the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse of children) in our country. There are some people involved who attempted to do the right thing and according to the report there are those…
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Bring Back Our Girls
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“You must do the things you think you can’t do.” Eleanor Roosevelt There are women all over the world risking their lives to become educated. We must support them. How can we do that? We must begin to lift the veil of unconsciousness. We can’t pretend the emotional/physical abuse that is happening in our world isn’t happening.…
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Domestic Abuse
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“Never make yourself feel like nothing, to make someone else feel like everything!” Rationalizing has to be prevalent when there is Domestic Abuse because how else could you convince yourself to stay. First you have to recognize that you are being emotionally, physically and or sexually abused. In my book p.20 I give you conversations to recognize…
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Rationalizing
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“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself!” Rationalizing is something we do when we don’t want to face the truth. Rationalizing is something we use to make what just happen ok in our eyes. Rationalizing is a tool for survival when things are too bad to survive. Rationalizing helps us cope when…
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Say No to Bad Days!
Before you say, “YES” to something, ask yourself, “What am I saying NO to?” Have you ever said to yourself, I am having a bad day! What is that about? When we don’t take care of ourselves, we fill that compartment called resentment and one day watch out, it explodes. The explosion may have nothing to do with what just happened…
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Drama
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it will get you the right ones.” We all have been there! Maybe you had a friend or you know someone now who is in a big DRAMA! The situation keeps getting worse and you can’t believe the stories… affairs, lying, addictions, bills not…
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Passion
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” Aristotle OK we all know this right? And yet how many of us enter into the most intimate relationship with our partners “saying nothing.” For those who still can’t discuss sex, it is time to lift that veil. Requests in the…
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Say No to Waffling!!!
“It comes from saying No to 1000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do to much.” Steve Jobs Are you beginning to see where we need our tools, ability to say No, ability to make requests, ability to speak our truth in order be a good leader, and in order to be…
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