Psychology
Toxic Relationships are Painful to Endure
#c0-dependency #toxicrelationship #selfesteem Toxic relationships. In this article, I refer to one party of a toxic relationship as the toxic person, or TP. He or she is the individual you cannot let into your life without inviting in a lot of anger, resentment, ridicule, hateful harangues, and exasperating evasions. Ever wonder why a certain relationship…
Read MoreHeart Attack, Death, Immortality and Taxes at a Glance
Walker the dog, an every day ritual turns treacherous and inspired some reflections in the days that followed.
Read MoreCatholic Growiing Up — Doubtful Growing Old
#catholic #religion #mass #catholiceducation #childabuse I was raised Catholic. I look back in amazement to my boyhood when reasoning, educated adults imposed pointless regimentation on children in the name of religion. The Church, gratefully, has changed over the years. But in the early and mid-twentieth century, adults often invoked faith to justify the harsh treatment…
Read MoreLosing a Pet — Every Owner’s Dread
Losing a pet is painful. I had to give up my dog Jessie. She had lost control of her bowels. We never had any problems during the six years she lived with us as an inside dog. We did not know anything about her history, however, because she was a rescue. The veterinarian estimated her…
Read MoreSales Training a la Counselor Selling — Larry Wilson Filled a Void.
Sales training has always been important to the life insurance industry. Rookie agents struggle, Most fail. In the 1970s, when I was working with Wilson Learning, only one new agent in five made it through to the fifth year in the business. That statistic may not have improved much over the years. Selling life insurance…
Read MoreMarilyn Monroe — Icon: The Life, Times and Movies of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962, yet she has remained alive in the minds and hearts of people throughout the world ever since. While 600 books have been published about the actress, Gary Vitacco-Robles’ biography, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe, is a prodigious achievement that easily relegates the efforts of…
Read MoreViral Mythology Explores How Myths Are Created and Broadcast
The subtitle to Viral Mythology, by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman, reads “How the truth of the ancients was encoded and passed down through legend, art, and architecture.” The authors present an ambitious explanation of how and why the ancient myths and those we create today continue to roll forward in time often without…
Read MoreSales Training — Counselor Selling was Wilson Learning’s Flagship Program
@salestraining @counselorselling #wilsonlearning @larrywilson Sales training and interpersonal skills training are still offered by Wilson Learning Corporation. The following article is the second in a series covering my professional experience at Wilson Learning Corporation in the 1970’s. Nobody was allowed much time to settle in at Wilson Learning. I had to hit the ground running.…
Read MoreWilson Learning, My Career Crash Lands Safely in Larry Wilson’s Company
#larrywilson @wilsonlearning #counselorselling #saletraining Larry Wilson, the founder of Wilson Learning Corporation, died last April. (2013( Word did not reach me until a few weeks ago, however. I wondered in recent years whatever became of him. He was not on Facebook. When I googled, I found that there hundreds with his name, but none with…
Read MoreNatural Parent’s Support Critical to Stepparent Success in Blending a Family.
#stepparent #stepparenting #stepchildren #blendingfamilies My stepson Matt, his wife Kristina and her two children spent the Fourth of July weekend with us in the mountains, and I was reminded again of how fortunate I am as a husband and a stepparent. I gained a son when Melinda and I married in 1986. She, as the…
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