Help! You are probably looking for some, if you’re reading my blog. You have a choice, where you get help. If you’re in a city like Portland, Oregon where I am, it can be an overwhelming choice, with so many helpers available, advertising so many different kinds of help!
This is a long and exploratory blog post, so hang with me here, if you choose. I have some ideas I’m working on, and I’d like to share the initial concepts and reasons why I am thinking deeply on them.
We feel stress when our values conflict.
Our ‘Values,’ simply put, are any things that we care about strongly. Examples include abstract principles like “Kindness,” “Fairness,” “Justice,” and so forth, but also broad areas of interest and life experience, like “Art,” “Sports,” “Parenting,” “Adventure,” and even “Awareness.” Anything that really, really matters to you, is one of your values. Naturally, if we experience one of these things in conflict with another, we will feel stressed. Read More
The idea of anger management is tossed around these days in political conversations or discussions about celebrities who have crossed a social or relational line.
Societies constant desire for the new, for innovation, for an updated trend, means that as soon as something becomes popular for many people it also becomes passé. This is something that we often see in popular music, fashion and technology but this same attitude is also affecting how we approach our mental health and wellbeing. According to an 
Mindfulness is stupid in many ways. It’s stupidly easy. It’s stupidly simple. And in some cases, it’s just plain stupid.
I recently have had the good fortune to be in contact with a moderately famous person whom I’ve admired for much of my life. What I notice is that my first impulse, having some access to him, is to pester him as much as possible. This is unfortunate, but telling. Fame makes us strange–both the person who becomes famous, and their fans. We don’t act normal. They become reclusive or worse. We become toadying and star-struck. It’s all rather embarrassing. And yet many of us crave fame, perhaps even more than wealth. Why?
