Possibility thinking rewires our brains for stress-free calm, courage, and grace to thrive, in spite of daily challenges. We live in a world where stress hides behind good intentions, quick comments, tight timelines, and the belief that we must keep going no matter what. Stress often slips into our lives… Read more »
A challenge or possibility for those of us who seek a faith that breathes, grows, and embraces. Belief is often born quietly, an intuition of a higher presence, a whisper of meaning, a sense that life is held by more than chance. Yet belief is not meant to stay small… Read more »
It often takes retirement for many of us to see what had been quietly waiting beneath the surface of our lives: the full potential of silence, stillness, and serenity. In the active years, these qualities often felt like luxuries, pleasant but impractical, fleeting but not essential. Yet once the rhythms… Read more »
Ever wonder, with the rampant divisiveness and current corruption, how we can move forward? When corruption surrounds so many of our systems, conversations, and leaders, we see the discouragement it creates in our culture, especially among seniors who invested decades of trust, work, and wisdom into communities that now feel… Read more »
Electrical activity in our brain lights our inner world as electricity lights our homes. Every spark of thought, every pulse of emotion, and every creative surge depends on the harmony between the brain’s electrical waves and its chemical messengers. Together, they compose a living symphony where growth or stagnation begins,… Read more »
Pause for a moment and picture the last conversation in which someone insisted their view was the only intelligent one. Hear the sharp edges in their certainty, the hailstorm of put-downs, bogus, ridiculous, uninformed. It can feel as if ideas are weapons and words become pellets. Yet if we listen… Read more »
Life hands us puzzles daily, some obvious, some disguised as frustrations. The true test of our mind isn’t whether we face problems, but how flexibly we face them. Will we replay what went wrong, or re-frame what’s still possible? That simple choice determines whether our mind grows or shrinks. Why… Read more »
We all know the argument: “I’d love to change, but…” It rolls off tongues as easily as any old habit we no longer notice. A dean once told his university audience that he couldn’t transform teacher training because schools “out there” weren’t changing either. Not one person challenged him. The… Read more »
Deep within the folds of our brain’s temporal lobes sits a tiny almond-shaped powerhouse called the amygdala, the command center of emotion. It’s the silent sentinel that jumps to attention whenever life startles us, threatens us, or surprises is. It’s what makes our heart pound when a door slams, our cheeks flush… Read more »
Ever notice how stress sneaks in before we’ve had our morning coffee? One harsh word, one delay, one envious thought, and suddenly our brain is bathing in toxic chemistry. Listen to angry rhetoric, envy someone’s success, or join in name-calling, and we’re feeding our brain a dangerous cocktail of stress… Read more »
