We sat in a circle in a bookstore in Alpharetta, Georgia, on a Saturday morning. At least a dozen parents had signed up for one of the workshops I was offering on talking with your children about the recent September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. I was a second year doctoral student at the Georgia School of …

Hey, If you say I hurt you..well then, I’m sorry. Um…does this FEEL like an apology to you? I didn’t think so. What I’ve learned is that when an apology is real, you’ll feel it. Your body and your brain know the difference between words of, I’m sorry and feelings of, I’m sorry. Take a look at these examples: 1. …

People feel emotionally and physically terrible when they realize they have been manipulated. They’ll say, “I feel so stupid, why didn’t I see this, or I thought I was going crazy.” Most all of us have been emotionally manipulated at least once in our lives, and it usually feels the same for most everyone…bad. People who manipulate others do it …

Oh, my gosh, I did it again! Wendy has been working on presenting her second case in court: the first one was a disaster. She’s practiced and paced the floor of her apartment for hours going over and over her points. And, each time she faces the judge, she chokes. She forgets her points and becomes so anxious that she …

An old emotion rippled over me yesterday. Here’s how it went – I was thinking about how to solve a current problem and that thinking took me to a memory from graduate school, and that…took me to an old emotion associated with a past relationship…ugh! In a split second, I felt the ripple in my entire body! You know what …