Our stories matter. The stories we tell ourselves can have a huge impact on our mental well-being. Whether we realize it or not, we all create stories, or “narratives” to process information and make sense of events that happen in our lives. The way we construct our stories can radically influence our lives and the lives of our family and friends. “We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have alot of control over how we integrate and remember what
Read more →“How are you?” No, not the social question, but a genuine “How are you? For real. This question, “How are you?” can be challenging to answer for real because we are not used to focusing on who we are, who we are being at any given moment. We are much more accustomed to focusing on and describing what we are doing. ‘ I believe it is important to distinguish between what we are doing ( the “what”, the action) and who we are being (the
Read more →Last night I went to see Stephen Spielberg’s recently released American historical drama film, “Lincoln”. In case you haven’t seen it yet, this film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, is based in part, on Doris Goodwin’s biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, and focuses on President Lincoln’s tumultuous final 4 months in office before his assassination. In a nation divided by war, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the
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