Tag: toughness

The Nightmare That Won’t Go Away by Trying to Live in the Imagined Glorious Past

Most of us have been affected emotionally over the past several months from the political ideologies that want to take their countries backwards to an imagined time when everything was so great and glorious. We who work in this field of helping people move forward in our lives just kind of shake our heads and …

The Code for Frustration: Right Goal-Wrong Process to Get There

In the last post we discussed the negative emotion of anger and how it takes you out of your calm and cool-headed mind with a lot of fire.  If you were to have a dream where your house is on fire, you know that your anger is calling you to being cool-headed.  I like to discuss …

Balancing Toughness with Compassion to Become Stronger

I am writing this short post to share a few thoughts about the relationship between inner strength/toughness and compassion. I have this great client who came to me some time back mainly because he was having relational difficulties. He was an unembarrassed supporter of people on the far right and had positive thoughts toward people …