Break Down the Wall

Have you ever noticed that you may connect and communicate with one person more easily and freely than with another? Why is this? Why do we act and interact one way when we are with a person, one-on-one, then behave and treat them totally differently when we are with a group of people? This is an invisible wall we have created
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Joy-filled Language

How many of us notice the language we use? Is it guilt ridden? Does it exert power over the other person? Or is it caring, compassionate and loving while sharing power with the other? In a conversation with my wife the other day, she reminded me to notice a big distinction in the words I was using. She noticed, I
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Getting Beyond The Weather

Have you ever had one of those conversations where, no matter what questions you ask, the conversation never went past, “Hey, how are you? How’s the weather?” My relationship with my father had been that way for as long as I could remember. Conversations rarely got beyond the superficial formalities. Everything was always just ok and the conversations usually lasted five
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