Does Hope help?

January 6, 2020 by Paddy Spruce

Does Hope really help? Of course it is better than despair. The alternative to hope is acceptance of what is rather than wanting something better. It is having enough rather than wanting more. You can pause and enjoy enough because you are there. You are never there when you seek more.

Allostatic load

Allostatic load is the wear and tear on our body caused by stress and worry. We can get stressed by dealing with actual events. We can also get stressed by imaginary events. Our body reacts the same to real or imagined events. Mark Twain wrote that we all have tragedies in our lives…some of which […]

A new normal

There is still time to establish your new normal. We are likely to get past coronavirus this year and settle back into what we call normal. There is still time to decide what we want this normal to look like. Do we go back to what we did before or do we deliberately decide what […]