emotions

What factors make some topics so hard to discuss?  Do you get frustrated when you try to make improvements and you just get resistance to any new ideas? Are you tired of starting a conversation and having it turn into a fight?

What can make for tough conversations? Talking to your elderly parents or spouse about needing more help in the home? Talking about long term financial needs with your siblings when one parent has medical issues? Starting to discuss what will happen when aging parents are not safe at home?  read more »

As you may or may not have read, I am an occupational therapist by training.  It is a lovely, historical history of how some smart 'reconstruction aids' in WW-I got the idea to work with what motivated the guys that basically didn't want to 'do' what the PTs were asking them to do for their rehabilitation and figured out that if you 'engage the mind, the body will follow".  They used a lot of gardening, woodworking, painting, crafts .....  read more »

I'm setting up this area for anyone who wants to have a place to come and 'vent' ...  read more »