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New Year’s Eve: Looking back and ahead
The year is almost done; you clean your desk and prepare for the last holiday of the calendar year. Sometime during that last week there is always that moment of reflection, of what was and how it could be; the mistakes you don’t want to make in the coming year, the bad habits you want…
Read MoreHealthy Sense of Self and Motivation
In light of the recent attacks in Paris, France (November 13th) and San Bernardino, California (December 2nd) Healthy Sense of Self jumped on the bandwagon for a “hand over your weapons and contribute in that way to world peace” – policy. As a result of the blog that appeared on Saturday, November 14th 2015, I…
Read MoreThe right to bear arms…
America! Give us, well-intentioned citizens, finally a few good reasons why it is so necessary to possess arms. After all, we don’t live in the cowboy era any longer and shooting Indians (with permission) has long been banished. What reasons can possibly justify the disastrous consequences of a situation in which the wrong people are…
Read MoreHealthy Sense of Self reacts to the Paris Massacre of November 13, 2015
The similarity between fighting another nation, religion, or group and becoming your true self –a reaction to the many terrorist attacks in Paris, Friday November 13th, 2015 People are like a country: they have their own territory. And, just like there are people who think they have the right to take possession of a country…
Read More#HeidiTrumpsTrump in the Best Possible Way
#HeidiTrumpsTrump and Proves Strength of Sense of Self Not that anyone is really surprised, but Donald Trump recent made a few questionable comments in a New York Time’s interview with columnist Mareen Dowd. In the interview, Trump proves that no one is safe from his harsh comments as he claims that Heidi Klum is somehow…
Read MoreHave a Safe & Happy Fourth of July Weekend!
From the entire Healthy Sense of Self Team, Happy Fourth of July Weekend! Be sure to take the necessary safety measures during this Fourth of July weekend to keep you and your family safe. Remember, temperatures are soaring this time of year, and many locations around the country are more subject to wildfires during this time.…
Read MoreWHO is the Great Leader in your life?
When you’re not allowed to express anything in the open, you become good at reading what is unspoken. In one of their personal letters to me, a student wrote that he understood why I always called them gentlemen. It was because I was wishing them to be gentle in life, he said. ~ Suki Kim,…
Read MoreEvolution does not favor reality. It’s goal is survival.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is … or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us. According to Donald Hoffman, in this TED talk, the greatest unsolved…
Read MoreTED Talk: Margaret Heffernan–Dare to disagree and say no to willful blindness.
Gayla Benefield opted to be a “whistleblower” because she cared that much and I believe she had a strong Sense of Self. She is a woman I would love to meet some day. Margaret Heffernan’s TED Talk on “willful blindness” hooked me with the story of Gayla Benefield discovering that the very source of early…
Read More“Go against the norms: because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
The media is saturated with it. We just have to turn on the television, open a fashion or beauty magazine, log into Facebook, and what do we see? We see multiple images of women and men who are supposed to represent some sort of ‘ideal’. Each decade we encounter a different version of ‘ideal’. With…
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