We have all heard that everyone deals with grief in their own way, and that we must do it. This emotion is usually associated with a loss of someone we love, but it is more evasive than that. Grief is something we experience even when we perceive an upcoming loss of a marriage, job or money, for example. Many children grieve during and after a divorce and their behavior reflect the emotion. Grief can make us say and do things that are out of character for us. It can cause us to withdraw from loved ones or supporters and depression or fear feels like the norm. Worry is one of the feelings that lead to grief and if left unchecked and exaggerated can leave us feeling lost and alone.

Whenever we think about conflict, we tend to think of it in a negative connotation. Yet conflict can be good. Here's why. Conflict fuels innovation. It helps take good ideas and make them great...

What prompts you to take action? Many of us seem to delay taking action until forced by outside circumstance. The natural outcome of procrastination is a hardship...

The author of The Resilient Spirit book offers insight into the resiliency and self growth lessons taught by the thirty-three, brave Chilean miners who were trapped at the bottom of a mine for sixty-nine days.

The quickest way to form a suggestion, where thoughts commence with the word “shouldn’t”, is to ruminate about things you don’t want or things you don’t like...

Here’s the basic idea: Positive change starts inside of a person, works it’s way out and into the world around them, and then returns to the individual as a reward. What makes the difference? You must care.

Many of the great books available today provide insight. The majority of these books tell us how to improve our lives by doing what we “should”. Most of the self-help books include positive thinking; focusing on what you want, and tell us to be less resistant. I have read hundreds of books and concluded that they are all presenting the same idea – the meaning is, “Do what you should."

Some of you may be thinking, "Dr. E..., you've got that all wrong. It's supposed to be 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'." Well let me tell you all, we do have problems that we need to face in our culture, and consistently we don't face them.

Doing what we “should” comes naturally – it is an innate skill. We consistently distinguish what we want, and what we like. Why is a change something we fear? Why do we resist doing what we “should,” often putting off what we want?

This is perhaps the most valuable lesson you’ll ever learn!

To get rid of problems and gain confidence and control over your life, you absolutely must listen to your own internal communication system –your inner voice and gut feeling.