"What if” thoughts swirl around in my brain. I know them to be worry thoughts, always relating to the future, the unknown, the uncertain. As I notice these thoughts, my golden nugget response is: “I’ll handle it!” Then I reframe the worry thought in my head and sometimes out loud. The worry thought runs smack into a wall and loses power over me. Emotions that were triggered by the worry thought can now move through me and float away. I welcome a calm and anchored sense of sta

Every season of life offers gifts of companionship. As humans our deepest need is love, companionship holds the hand of love. They are a pair. I have learned to trust and embrace gifts from God to meet my need of companionship, not holding back, just in case something happens. I have learned even though it is a risk to be fully present with the companion, self-protection risks a life of half-hearted living. Sweet companions show up in my life in many forms: A deep conversatio