Solely focusing on “the bigger picture” is not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s a problem! Why? It prevents us from practicing the day-to-day emotional availability needed to enjoy the journey of our lives in the present moment. However, the mainstream self-help genre, celebrity life Gurus, and even some traditional therapies teach us, high-level goal focus is… Read More »
After pushing myself to attend a tech networking event, the reality hit me: a step to improve emotional availability is to embrace a powerful experience called universality. When we accept that we are not alone, we can experience comfort and liberation by tapping into the power of support, connection, and community—essential factors on the pathway of healing. When… Read More »
So, you decided to start dating again, huh? Are you taking your time and getting to know your beau or beauette? Or are you already envisioning the house on the lake, the kids, the names of the kids, the side-by-side matching bathroom towels, and the style of the suit or dress you will wear at the altar of… Read More »
This post is not a twirling about the meadows Post but a truth serum Post. It promises the added benefit of feeling better in the long term by getting uncomfortable in the short term by exploring how to become emotionally available. One step in learning how to become emotionally available is learning to access the emotions in our… Read More »
As I continue to strengthen my commitment to my emotional availability, it’s ever so clear that the lion’s share of courage is needed to relinquish our knee-jerk impulse to leave our experiences to chance but not a catalog of choices we make in life. Indeed, for some of us, we are the sum of our daily choices, month-to-month,… Read More »
One thing I used to find eerily haunting about my relationships with EUPs (Emotionally Unavailable Partners) is their seeming ability to drop the microphone, give up the ghost, and walk away from the relationship without a flinch- to discard things (people) as not important to them. In hindsight, every time they walked away from the relationship, unbeknownst to… Read More »
Life lessons keep appearing to test me as I attempt to refresh, renew, and restart my dreams of a significant career transition at 37 (i.e., rebooting the Love & Life Antics Blog, paving the way for a new career in SEO and digital marketing). Life keeps asking the vital question: “Jacen, how will you deal with life obstacles… Read More »
