July marks Sandwich Generation Month and is a chance to pay tribute to adult children who
are juggling the demands of raising kids while taking care of aging parents. The number of Americans 65 and older is projected to increase from 40 million in 2010 to over 88 million by 2050, doubling the ranks of those experiencing this stressful combination of responsibilities.
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Pain is a gift and is often essential to our personal evolution. Without it we may travel largely through life unconscious.
Those who are interested in an evolution of the self understand that oftentimes pain is essential to waking us up and living life more fully. Pain invites us to ask really important questions and to spiritually grow up. Pain invites us to evaluate what we believe to be true, important, and hard. Pain invites us to check our boundaries, our wounds and to change something. These situations have us mute the outside world for a bit, so that we can...
A wise friend once shared with me her secret to a successful and happy life . . .
"Forget the back-story" - Leslie Ayers, The Job Search Guru
Part of "Accepting what is," the first step in practicing Unfear, is to let go of assigning blame. When we get caught up in the back-story, in assigning blame, we arrest forward movement. Assigning blame is a diversionary tactic. It is avoidance, a fear reaction which imprisons us in the past.
When we focus on assigning blame we create ego conflicts and a toxic work environment. Accepting what is requires focusing on...
