Dr. Carolyn Coon

  How do you ‘handle’ it, when you are the one hurt? Granted that the type and who of the hurt-er does make a difference. But the point is – what do you do with those feelings? Denying and/or ignoring what you feel never works. And it doesn’t make any difference if your feelings are ‘accurate’ or […]

  What I’ve learned about self improvement, at least for me and my life, really are quite important. Though there undoubtedly are a multitude of competing voices and impacts (and suggestions) on our attempts at self-improvement, the beginning is critical. Actually, the beginning is everything. We can think about and talk about improving, but the only way

  This is another word that’s on my favorite word list. It’s because of what the word represents, what the definition is. It’s very personal. Paradigm: “standard, pattern or model,” but it also says that it is a prototype which means that it is, “…(to be) tested so that the design can be changed if necessary, …something that serves

is in the definition. A ‘duh’ comment possibly, but it’s one of those that we don’t think about and too often apply our definition, presupposing we have one, to others by a kind of osmosis. Wrong. And it can be fatal. Simply because an item/activity/event/state of mind is in our queue in the definition of

is that what you’re waiting for? Are you waiting until you are a more ‘satisfactory’ candidate, or ready… whatever that means? Or maybe you are hesitant because you think you’ll have to give up all those ‘things’ that are part of your life that you enjoy? Not. There is an apt scripture that says… “Behold,

  Critical. Important. Not to be ignored or simply to become ‘whatever’. Relationships are always in a state of growth and change or they atrophy into nothingness. I’m certain we’ve all experienced those relationships in our lives that just seemed to peter out. Why? What happened that caused this? Then there are those rare people

  You do realize, don’t you, that there is will power and there is desire power and desire always trumps will? It does. If ‘desire’ doesn’t provide the foundation for ‘will’ then the potentiality of success in (fill in the blank) is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Definitions – Webster says that ‘desire’ is “ask for,

  How’s yours? Do you walk in a high (your definition) level of  ‘quality of life’? I suspect we should begin with a definition… how do you define this state? One little hint… quality of life is not a ‘not’. It isn’t what isn’t in your life nor is it looking at an absence of

  Not an idle question. We tend to relive yesterday or we plan for tomorrow and/or both, but… do we miss now in the process? It really is a legitimate question and one I’ve asked any number of times in various and sundry ways… still relevant – where do we spend the vast majority of our ‘living’ time,

  One of my favorite scriptures is in Jeremiah (29:11): “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”!!! He has plans to prosper us… PLUS not harm, give us hope, future! Goodness, what a