Sometimes families present some of our biggest emotional challenges. Family dynamics, sibling rivalries, jealousies, insecurities, and competition have the potential to infect an otherwise happy family. Learning healthy communication strategies, conflict resolution skills and practicing an attitude of gratitude have the power to truly transform your health by eliminating unnecessary stress in your relationships. In addition, practicing mindfulness in listening and communicating with your family, friends and others is a healthy approach to relating.
Treat Others as You Want To Be Treated
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. ~ Lou Holtz
Felt With The Heart
The best and most beautiful things in the world - cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
A Partnership
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. ~ Helen Mirren
A Successful Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ Andre Maurois
Loving Deeply
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu
The Best Thing
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn
With All Your Heart
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius
There is Love
Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Ability to Say NO
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Think About Family
First, there are those people who live in your home. The kids, partners, spouses and animals who gather together for a daily mishmash of happy, anxious, calm, crazy, loud, frenetic, tender moments. They are, by definition, a “family”.
Kindness
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama
At the Dinner Table
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. ~ Ronald Reagan