by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 11, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care I love this bit of wisdom from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, “Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.” And grief is the appropriate word here. Any...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 1, 2019 | Spiritual Stuff
From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living Worries were piling up, and January has about 492 days. So, I set off on a 27 degree early morning walk at Martin Nature Park in OKC. Trails are dirt and rock, no pavement, which always makes me feel like I’m further from...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 25, 2019 | Resilience
From Bitter Reality to Resilient Living When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 18, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end–which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality,” according to Admiral Jim Stockdale. What...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 13, 2019 | Resilience
For Those Who Lead “Fear and courage are not mutually exclusive,” Brene Brown articulates so precisely. You may tend to think that the courageous do not experience fear or that if you have fear, you are not courageous. But, this is not so. The difference...
