Shields Up!

Boundaries Are Our Best Self-Protection. Many years ago I had a social work mentor that was apt to give me this feedback. She would say, “Milly, no one can “make you” feel anything.”  Now some twenty-plus years later, I respectfully disagree. We live in a crazy...

Wellness begins with “WE”

If that statement, “Wellness begins with WE” feels kitchie, I can understand. To be honest, I have been feeling a bit “overly sentimental” and “nostalgic” this week. But the word “kitchie” has a second meaning as well. The word, “kitchie” is a Scottish term referring...

The Mystery Will Be Revealed

Ubuntu Practice # 7. Choose Hope Over Optimism. I love to write. This fact is interesting because I did not learn to read or write until after the third grade. To the second grade me reading and writing was a mystery. I believed that this mystery had simply been...