Lying To Hold on Last night, I dreamed that I was a real estate agent. My customers were a married man and woman. The man was eager to sell the house, but the woman was not. She came up with every excuse not to sell the house. Every conversation with the customer began to feel more and more conflicted. So much so that I could feel, in my abdomen, the stress it was causing me. But then, out of a sense to break the tension I felt within myself, I became radically honest with th

When I was a child, I regularly witnessed my father fly into fits of rage. I did not know where the rage came from. All I saw were the effects of the rage: screaming, lancing insulting, throwing food, throwing lug nuts, wide unrepaired holes in doors and walls, and damaged property. I also felt the after effects of that behavior: anxiety, panic, anguish, and sadness. These emotions lingered long after the rage subsided. Those emotions then controlled my behavior: tip toeing a

Living Your Truth: Can You Handle It? In Episode 8 of Valuable Insight, Daniel Beavers and I explore the truth. What is it? Where can you find it? What is your truth? The truth can set us free. We live our lives with truths and lies. We live life based on beliefs. Those beliefs can be rooted in truth or falsities. Daniel and Leslie have made choices and lived their lives based on lies. These lies caused them great pain. It took some time to find their own truths, but they did