by dmackinnon | Jan 11, 2016 | Healing Choices, Process
On Saturday morning as I was folding laundry I was suddenly overwhelmed with grief. I am not someone who cries easily but I felt the tears coming and I let them. I folded laundry and cried and thought about my loved one. By the time I was finished folding the last...
by dmackinnon | Sep 22, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
I’ve been writing about cognitive dissonance lately, on Live to Write–Write to Live, a group blog I’m a part of with 7 other writers. You can check out those blog posts here and here. I thought I was done thinking about—and writing about—cognitive dissonance for...
by dmackinnon | Jul 29, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
Lately, the concept of “comfort zone” has come up with multiple clients during multiple conversations. I used to think getting out of your comfort zone meant making a drastic change. Over the years I’ve come to see that if we can get out of our comfort zones in very...
by dmackinnon | Jun 17, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
I was talking to an acquaintance at the end of a meeting recently. After we chatted for a few minutes, she asked me what I was up to. “I’m going running now,” I said. “Oh, I can’t run,” she said. “Have you ever tried...
by dmackinnon | Jun 12, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I decided to give up carbs and sugar—for three weeks. My husband has done this before; I never have. It’s now been two weeks, and I’m still off the sugar and the carbs. The first week was difficult as I had a hard time figuring...
by dmackinnon | May 29, 2015 | Healing Choices, Process
This year I’ve embraced the idea of doing something scary every day. Scary in a good way, you know what I mean? Scary-exciting, not scary-creepy. For each one of us, what scares us in a, “I couldn’t do that. Could I?!” way, is different. Some...
