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Schindler's List A Fecal Matter

(The following was written in 1993.)Recently, when a visiting friend wanted to rent it, I saw "Schindler’s List" again. I can report that a second viewing of Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of the concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth yields even mo...

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An Excerpt from THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy

The women I interviewed caused me to look at my clients in new ways. As Proust states, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." I discovered many aspects of enchantment in my clients as I began to...

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Accepting our Rejected Thoughts

Sometimes we are in a position to look into the lives of other people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet. Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly admire, a...

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How to Share Power in a Relationship The Five Cs of CoCreation

As a species, we are gradually moving from self-centered, adversarial uses of power to collectively sharing power for the mutual benefit of everyone. We are shifting from a paradigm characterized by “me or them” to “me and them.” We are lifti...

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Trapped in the Mind Box

For my birthday several years ago, my sister took me on my first cruise - just a little day trip from San Diego down to Baja Mexico and back. She herself had been on a transatlantic passage on the QE II. Every time she talked about it, we both rememb...

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Letting go of anger and awaken to life's grand adventures

Anger can make us feel good and enlivened for a little while. When we are angry we are often feeling self-righteous, critical, judgemental and we have someone to blame for our own problems. However, anger can easily turned to hatred and this can lead...

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Knowing Your Introverted Child

I'm the IntrovertZCoach and my mission in life is to make sure that no introverted child today has to go through what my clients did who grew up in a time when people didn't understand introversion as a legitimate personality type. I hope y...

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6 Steps To Overcoming Your Worst Habit

How ashamed are you of your habit? How much do you want to get over this habit? Thinking about the amount of "satisfaction" you gain from your habit, where would you place it on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the highest? The apparent satisfaction t...

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7 Tips to Being a Thriving Person

A successful person is one who thrives on learning, attempting, andreaching new goals. A thriving person goes beyond just getting by.They have an attitude of abundance and are willing to share it. Take alook at some of the attributes.1. A strong sens...

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The Importance of Play

The Importance of PlayBy Michelle L. CastoIn the book, The Three Boxes of Life, Richard Bolles discusses the boxes of learning, working, and playing. He suggests that most people have pursued these dimensions in a linear sequence. First we learn, the...

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