“Tell me something positive,” my CrossFit coach asked me as I walked into the building the other day. I pondered for about ten seconds without coming up with anything to say

“No is a complete sentence.”
(Anne Lamott)

Setting boundaries is hard and feels pretty uncomfortable, which is probably the reason why we can all be so very bad at it, even to the detriment of our own well-being.

How many times have you come to a proverbial fork-in-the-road in your life?

I am going to assume the answer is A LOT. Even if you are five years old, you have already made a good bit of decisions. Ok, maybe not life altering decisions, but definitely choices.

We live in a time of human existence unlike any time before where most people have….

I jokingly say that because I enjoy endurance activities. A twenty mile hike? Yes, I’m in. Crossfit workout 20 plus minutes long? You bet. Cleaning out an entire house full of furniture and 30 years of family living? Oh, my favorite – when can I start?

Was Goldilocks right – about everything?

Just right. How many times have you realized that the answer to life’s challenges is finding the right balance?

Through my teenage son music’s exploration, he discovered Alice in Chains and along with that, some rather impactful lyrics from the song “Down in a Hole”, which he brought to my attention after I listened to a few of their songs.