Thought-Life Connection

• June 6, 2010

  The Blame Audit

  At any moment, you have two choices about how to interpret what is happening in your life. You can look for who or what is responsible for why things are…

• June 2, 2010

  Getting Others’ Approval to Get Your Own

  Guilt is one of the most familiar feelings in the human emotional vocabulary — and one of the most misunderstood. Most people treat guilt as either a signal to be…

• June 1, 2010

  What It Actually Means

  “This too shall pass” is one of the most quoted phrases in spiritual recovery — and one of the most misapplied. It is often used as a form of emotional…

• May 29, 2010

  The Attraction to Emotional Trauma

  What is your devastating weakness? Not in the abstract, not philosophically — what is yours, specifically, in the way your inner life actually works? Most people have never answered that…

• May 29, 2010

  The Ego’s Preference for Drama

  Negative thoughts do not return because you are weak or spiritually deficient. They return because of a pattern — a groove in the mind that was cut long before you…