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Everything in our mundane day to day lives is ruled by ethics, obligations, a desire for progress, for something better. Why is that? I...

(also posted on my business website) Grief can be controversial. Some people seem to "get over it" quickly, some slowly. Some wonder if...

(Originally posted on my business site) Complaining has a bad reputation. We all know we shouldn't "be complainers." Because we...

(Originally posted on my business site) Complaining has a bad reputation. We all know we shouldn't "be complainers." Because we...

Recently, Jordan Peterson spoke at Liberty University's Convocations. In the last couple of minutes on stage, the host asked Jordan what...

Imagined transcript from interview explaining my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon). This interview...

So my daughter and I came up with another hilarious scenario. You know "that person" who only likes games they can win? The one who is...

The Cinnamon Toast cereal sold by Walmart's Great Value tastes great, but the graphic design on the box is super hokey. My daughter and I...

Ok, so my phone case is looking a bit haggard. But I really like it. And by the time I ordered the wrong size, returned it, and bought a...

Last week, I met a retired man on my street who had just moved to my neighborhood from Colorado. He was friendly, clean, responsible. I...

Last year I hired a new therapist at my clinic. During the job interview, we were talking about her work experience. Her last clinic, she...

This past week I was surprised to find out how painful self-compassion could be. I’ve read books about this form of self-kindness and...

Pia Mellody's book, Facing Codependence should be 1,000% more popular than it is and should be required reading for anyone who had a...

There are few things that get my ire up more than my husband scrolling Instagram at bedtime. We've gone the rounds on that one a few...

A couple of nights ago, my husband and I were getting ready to go to bed. We’d just made it through most of a Shakespeare movie (Henri IV...

Recently I re-read part of Joseph Smith's "Lectures on Faith." Great stuff. And I was reminded that faith is a principal containing two...

This morning at breakfast, my husband asked me if I thought temples were too extravagant. He’d been reading on various temples that were...

When I was a little kid, I’d tag along with my mom wherever she went. Being the youngest, I was her little sidekick when the older kids...

I remember, as a kid, thinking adults were so smart. They had their own cars and jobs and credit cards. They got to tell us what to do....

I know, without any doubt, that God inspires people to do daring things. That sometimes those daring things don’t make sense. And that he...