Now that we are well into 2018, we hope you are still going strong on meeting the goals you set for yourself for this year. People may scoff at resolution and goal-making, but making a commitment to yourself can go a long way to helping you be your best. Keeping…
Category: Relationships
Another Holiday Lesson
This month, we’re talking about Susan’s lessons for creating our own holiday blessings. The following is another Holiday lesson she wrote about in Life Is Huge!: Stop trying to change other people. You may want everyone in your life to follow your perfect “script,” for the holidays, not theirs. As…
The Language of Openness
Making friends online can be so much easier than in real life. We can choose how we want people to see us and we can showcase only the parts of ourselves that we like the most. But online connections are no replacement for real life interactions. Hiding behind our screens…
Feelings Are Contagious
In this excerpt from The Feel the Fear Guide the Lasting Love, Susan describes how our mind and feelings can affect those around us. When we feel love, especially for ourselves, those we interact with will notice and react in kind. Feelings are contagious. What do I mean by that?…
Assigning Blame and Romantic Relationships
In this month’s newsletter article, we talked about taking responsibility for our life experiences. We want to talk a little more about lesson three—Be aware of where and when you are NOT taking responsibility so that you can eventually change. In Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan used…
Broadening Your Relationship Horizons
This month, we are talking about finding love when all the rules seem to be constantly changing. Here is an example of one woman who took a long route to find her balance on the shifting carpet of love. Tia was in the dating scene for more than twenty years.…
Connect With A Friend to Stay Inspired
As we talked about in November’s newsletter article, it can be tough to stay on our spiritual path each and every day. Especially when we so often face frustration, annoyance, and drudgery. Finding ways to keep yourself focused on the good can be trying, and Susan had a lot of…
Taking Time Out for Your Friends
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” Kahlil Gibran Kahlil Gibran, the mystic and poet, had a lot of wonderful things to say about friendship and the connection between people, but the quote above says so much in so few words. Friendships are a responsibility—a responsibility to support…
The Unspoken Connection Between Friends
Further exploring our friendship theme, below is an example that Susan used in Dare to Connect. Sometimes even our closest friends have trouble communicating their appreciation of our friendship, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Some people, even while feeling deeply, have trouble opening up, but that is the…
How To Meet New Friends
Susan wrote in Dare to Connect, “When making new friends, it is important to be who you are. If someone likes who you are, you have a new friend. If someone doesn’t like who you are, no problem—just move on to the next person. Eventually you end up with a…