Dear Meli, Do you have any ideas or advice about the connection between physical healing and emotional pain? I have a very difficult relationship with an old friend. In recent years, she has become more and more abusive. So much so, I recently stepped back from the...
If you’re worried that this is one of those makeover posts where I tell you to start wearing power suits and pumps, don’t worry. I’m not going to do that! Unless power suits and pumps are part of the journey I’m going to talk about. In that case, power suits and pumps...
There’s a lot of chatter in the world. As I write this, we are moving through the end stages of a particularly stressful and contentious election in the United States. I don’t know about you, but sometimes it’s hard to find myself in the midst of the chatter. What’s...
Dear Meli, It’s been an intense couple of months, what with the election and Covid. But in my family, the intensity has been going on for four years. My family of origin and I have very different political views. We tried to have civil discussions, but we found...
Why do we insist on believing our minds? They steer us wrong again and again. And yet we continue to believe them. They predict the future. We believe them. They make up stories about what other people think of us. We believe them. They enumerate our faults and tell...
Dear Meli, I’ve been very upset about politics. There’s so much hatred and divisiveness and it’s really stressing me out. I’m trying not to watch the news too much, but then I also get more worried when I’m not paying attention to...
