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The following is a list of all entries from the patience category.

Demystifying Healthy Relationships

 
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Human beings are social animals; so much so, that one of the worst things that society can do to a person is to separate them from their friends and family. For example: break the law, go to jail. The mere threat of this type of punishment is enough to keep most people inside the social […]


How to Have Difficult Conversations

 
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This is the final part of a three-part series on communication, the focus of which is using effective communication skills to reduce the stress in our lives. Previously I described the communication model, and how it’s a wonder we communicate at all. I detailed a communication process that I refer to as “mirroring.” Which is […]


A Recipe for Personal Peace

 
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For 7 ½ years I taught drug- and behaviorally-addicted parolees in California life skills. It was a 120-hour course that consisted of four components: one was the disease concept of addiction; there was recovery, or behavior modification; there was building healthy relationships with healthy people; and stress and anger management. That’s the component that I […]


Jewels in the Rubbish

 
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A good friend of mine once told me that nothing is entirely good or bad. I think that’s what the little dots in the yin and the yang symbol represent – that everything has the potential for its opposite within it. The Buddhists have a saying, “When you find a jewel in the rubbish, treasure […]