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“No" is a complete sentence.
Goodreads Quotes on Boundaries photo credit: kevin dooley via photopin cc
- Anne Lamott
Setting Healthy Boundaries
Setting healthy boundaries is essential to relationship satisfaction,
whether it is at work, with family members, or friends.
In this video, Dr. Henry Cloud, an expert in boundaries, talks with Dave Ramsey about setting boundaries with family members.
Men and women – even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1904
Couple Relationships: Challenging But Not Impossible
Couple relationships can be challenging.
Joseph Campbell, the 20th century mythologist, said that marriage is an ordeal. Campbell says the individual must die to himself to become one part of a larger unit in marriage.
The 1st amendment of the constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
photo credit: Constitution Day Poster Contest 2013.
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Religion Can Provide a Path for You
Religion that brings light into the world has always fascinated me.
This interest may arise from my own belief that religion is the basis of culture and fundamentally impacts the way society is built as well as individual behavior.
Getting Over Public Speaking Fears
According to Psychology Today, surveys show that we humans fear public speaking more than anything else, even death.
Toastmasters was a good first step for me in gaining a comfort level with public speaking.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. photo credit: archer10 (Dennis) via photopin cc