The single greatest cause of stress during the holidays is our own overly high expectations.
We have a special Holiday treat for today and next Sunday! Abby Seixas, author of Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman’s Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life, graciously offered to provide two posts about reducing holiday stress and practicing presence as a path to more satisfaction and joy.
No “romance” can last a lifetime. Daily routine gets in the way…What many couples fail to realize is that love is more than a particular feeling, it’s an action verb.
What if nothing seems very funny and you can’t find anything to laugh about?
The joy of non-doing is that nothing else needs to happen for this moment to be complete. The wisdom in it, and the equanimity that comes out of it, lie in knowing that something else surely will.
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