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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Bill Crawford

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep

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