One of the most enduring aspects of the legend of King Arthur is the quest for the “Holy Grail.” According to legend, the Holy Grail was the cup Jesus drank from at the last supper, and which was brought to Britain and hidden. Kept in a castle in a desolate …
Someone once said, “It’s not when my problems come one at a time that I have difficulty. It’s when they travel in a pack that things get out of hand!” Challenges test us. There is no doubt about it. How we go about managing a crisis, however, and the meaning …
Holidays are often times of both great joy and challenge. What we are most often seeking is “harmony,” a balance between our wishes, needs, expectations and those of the people in our lives we celebrate with. It can also be a complicated time, however, often filled with complicated issues and …
We all have them; those people in our lives that seem to stress us out all the time. Bosses, partners, spouses, family, co-workers, look around and you’ll find one. They seem to be energy magnets; whatever energy we have is pulled into the “black hole” of our connection with them! …
As told in Homer’s “Odyssey,” when the Ithacan King Odysseus was called upon to join the Greek armies in their battle with Troy, he was obligated to leave both his kingdom and his new born son, Telemachus. He didn’t know when, or if, he would return. To protect and guide his …
One of the things we are compelled to confront daily is the ever evolving role of men in our culture. As we try to come to grips with who we are and who we would like to be, we run into the expectations of others, and who they wish us …
Our nervous systems crave predictability and consistent responses from our environments. This is often why we look to bad habits, certain unhealthy foods, alcohol or sometimes even drugs to give our nervous system the relief that it seeks from dealing with the stress of change. When we feel a level …
It often seems that it’s when we are the most hurt by the acts of others that “just moving on” feels almost impossible. Part of us wants to “let go,” but a seemingly equal part just can’t. The harm may have been caused years; maybe even decades ago, but it …
The words we use say so much about how we view ourselves and our world. For example, how many of us are always “searching” for happiness? How many of us just “hope to find it” someday? On the other hand, how many of us are experts at “making ourselves miserable?” …
Life’s lessons can be learned in many different environments. As a former member of the U.S. Army’s elite counter terrorism unit, known as the “Delta” force, LTC Peter Blaber learned these lessons where the margin for error was virtually non-existent, and the cost of failure was often deadly. LTC Blaber’s …
