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Connection May Just Save Your Life
“He was a quiet guy. The type of guy you pictured one day taking a gun out and going on a shooting rampage.” If you think about it, everybody knows a Craig. I mean, I don’t actually know anyone named Craig, but I know I am Craig. For a time, I WAS Craig. I can tell by the confused dog looks I’m getting, I’ve lost you. It’s okay, not like context is important or anything. This past Monday night, I was working on this week’s article, when I got distracted by something on Facebook. I’ve got to say that this is a common occurrence for me. Modern-day writing is 50%…
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What NOT to Expect When You’re Expecting
— On the 25th of May, at 7:23pm, I became a father when my daughter was born with a tiny squeak resembling a cry and her middle finger in the air. For a moment, somewhere between my shock and surprise of the moment, I thought that everything would be alright. The major problem I was trying to ignore was that Zoey was born premature. The normal gestation period of a human being is 40 weeks in the womb, Zoey was 23 weeks at the moment she was born. Four days prior to being born, Sarah started having contractions and went to the hospital knowing they were early. After a dose of…
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Attract Your Best Partner by Being Your Own Best Lover
— My radio guest, Rebecca Clio Gould is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Qigong and Meditation Teacher, Sexual Awakening for Women Facilitator, and Author of “The Multi-Orgasmic Diet.” She’s on a mission to help women live healthier lives, step into their power, love themselves more, experience more joy, and live life to the fullest. Rebecca has been running her own business, Elemental Harmony, PLLC since 2007 and lives in Seattle, Washington. Following are highlights for this episode. You can also listen to the full podcast below. Why is it important to practice self-love? I view self-love as a foundation for optimal health and well-being. It’s important…
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Success for a Millennial
Not being handed anything in High School taught me to go for opportunities in adulthood. July 1, 2017 by Maya Bahl Leave a Comment “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a wonderful book on morality and ethics, and a great coming-of-age story in rural America. It was a high school requirement of mine to read the text, and coming from a rural area of Massachusetts myself, I could attest to a community being small and oftentimes spaced out. The movie version of this…
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4 Questions a Man Needs to Answer to Achieve ‘True Success’
For most of my 20’s, many people thought I was crazy. I was really into comfort zone challenges, from cold showers to salsa dancing and endurance races. From the outside, it looked like I was the typical millennial experience junkie. But in truth, everything I did had a greater purpose (yes, even surfing in Australia and facing bulls in Costa Rica). I was using my lifestyle to answer what I believe to be the 4 most important questions in a man’s life. And now that I’ve entered my 30’s, it’s paying off: I live in a beautiful Colorado mountain house with the woman of my dreams. I’m in the best shape of my life and recently won my first ever…
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How to Overcome Divorce Unfairness like a Champ
Let’s talk about one of the most common obstacles that stop us from moving on after divorce. Fairness. Unfairness. The feeling like we’ve been screwed over during divorce. You know exactly what I’m talking about. Do any of the following sound like things you have said or thought? “It’s not fair that my ex has already moved on and I’m stuck here with nothing.” “It’s not fair that they’re out having a great time while I’m here heartbroken.” “It’s not fair that my adult children are going to be in my ex’s wedding, and they don’t understand what I’m going through. “It’s not fair that I will have to work…
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Camera Shy*
— “Don’t forget to take pictures, Ceej.” My wife, Lisa, says this to me every time I take one or more of our children to a Red Sox game, a concert or a bowling alley. She likes to have documentation of our family outings and she enjoys creating calendars and albums from these photos. Even though it seems absurd in this era of on-demand photography to remind someone to take pictures, she is right to do so. Because I never take pictures. Well, almost never. The camera on my phone contains an embarrassingly small number of photos compared to the average human being in 2017. I’ve never taken a picture…
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Warning: If Your Partner Is Asking You to Do These 10 Things, It’s Time to Leave
Demand you make a major life change Making comments about the haircut they prefer on you or wishing you’d spend less on comic book memorabilia is one thing, but if your partner is asking you to change major things—your career, your religion, your studies, or other things you consider core parts of your personality—that’s a serious red flag, says Fran Walfish, PhD, Beverly Hills family and relationship psychotherapist, author of The Self-Aware Parent, and co-star of Sex Box on WE tv. “An important part of being in a successful relationship is to give up trying to control other people, especially your spouse or partner,” she says. Instead of trying to…
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I Just Realized Why I Hated My Stepfather, and it’s not Why You’d Think
Isaac Estes was the first boyfriend I ever had who tried to put his hand up my shirt. We used to “hang out” at my house a lot. We spent a lot of that “hanging out” time, making out — me waiting for someone to walk in, him trying to get his hand up my shirt to my barely-a-breast breast through my barely-more-than-a-training-bra bra. My stepfather had what he called an “open door” policy, which did not mean what the term “open door” usually implies. His version of “open door” was more like, leave your door OPEN ALL THE TIME. I hated my stepfather. How was I ever going to…
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The Pain In Letting Go Of Someone You Love
— How did we get here? It wasn’t supposed to end like this. We had plans. We had dreams. We still had so much to do. I thought we had so much time. Maybe one day we will meet again. So maybe I should be at peace with letting you go. I should just let the universe do its trick. But baby, I’m afraid we’ll get lost out there. I want to move on. I want to let you go. But I don’t want to stop missing you. I’m afraid to no longer miss you. It hurts to miss you. I want this pain to stop. But if I let…
