Holiday seasons are prime times for exalted expectations. Amid all the hype, images of impossibly happy families, outlandish claims for owning hundreds of products, or a desire to live up to other myths, we can easily become discouraged if we don’t see our own lives living up to the big screen. A children’s story threatensContinue reading “What’s Your Lump of Coal?”
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Critical Distinctions
Eat or Spend? The High Cost of Insecurity
Almost anyone who struggles with an eating disorder or really any addiction is familiar with how we can switch obsessions. If we are not drinking, we are eating. If we are not eating, we are smoking. If we are not working, we are drinking. On and on. Spending is one of the favorite “go to”Continue reading “Eat or Spend? The High Cost of Insecurity”
The Sources of Resentments
“Why did she do that to me? I’ve never done anything to her!” “No one crosses me and doesn’t pay for it.” “He may think he can do that to me, but just let him try it again.” Resentments are often called frozen rage or “drinking poison andContinue reading “The Sources of Resentments”
Shirley Fessel 