“I love you, but I wish you’d change your underwear more often.” “I love you, and I wish you’d change your underwear more often.” More than 30 years ago, family therapist Virginia Satir wisely called attention to the important difference between these two...
Has my experience ever happened to you? I’m in a workshop at a national conference with a group of mostly strangers. The leader predictably asks us to participate in an icebreaker that, unpredictably, is interesting and novel. I converse for a couple of...
Most of us have only a vague sense of what Quality of Life (QL) means. Wealth? Health? Leisure time? Fame? It seems obvious that a homeless person’s QL is lower than Donald Trump’s. Whitney Houston’s was tragically lower than Michelle Obama’s. But even these examples...
