by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 16, 2016 | Resilience
Embrace Ordinary Magic In her classic volume, Strengthening Family Resilience, Froma Walsh defines resilience as, “the ability to rebound from crisis and overcome life challenges.” Some of us just want to bounce back. The truth is that after a significant life crash,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 14, 2016 | Resilience
For Anyone Facing Adversity You are living with two parallel realities, two parallel truths. Part of your experience in caregiving and living with a difficult condition is frustrating, maddening, depressing, and difficult. But this is not the only reality. At the same...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 6, 2016 | Resilience
Remember Why You’re Going Hurting, frustrated, unsatisfied. Fear, anger, desire. These are some of the reasons we set out from here to get to there. With your health, your work, your relationships, or even with your spirituality, finances, or sense of adventure,...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 25, 2016 | Serendipity
Responses from last week’s Weekly Inspiration As you enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, perhaps these gratitudes from Weekly Inspiration readers will stir up some of your own. As noted last week, these can be past, present, or future. Large or small. They all...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 18, 2016 | Serendipity
Do this exercise at least once a week Just a wild guess here. You may not wake up happy every morning. Some, but not all. Perhaps the unwanted intruders of anxiety, stress, and legitimate worry invaded your attempts at sleep. Maybe you’re just grumpy. Or, the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 11, 2016 | Caregiving
November is National Family Caregivers Month Unknown and often unnoticed, you are a hero nonetheless. For your love, sacrificial, is God at his best. You walk by faith in the darkness of the great unknown, And your courage, even in weakness, gives life to your...
by Bruce McIntyre | Nov 4, 2016 | Caregiving
6 Secrets That Aren’t So Secret Most family caregivers have this little acknowledged trait in common: spying. Yes, we spy on our loved ones and also on our tolerated ones! Some of us are mutual caregivers, both living with chronic conditions and helping care for...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 28, 2016 | Serendipity
Early Morning Humor at Dunkin’ Donuts My best days begin with exercise, spiritual focus, and writing, followed by a healthy breakfast at home. This was not one of those days. No, this was a Monday morning, sleep in late, and run through Dunkin’ Donuts kind...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 21, 2016 | Resilience
What moves you? 1. Hurting enough to change. When the pain of your current situation becomes bad enough, you will do something different. It’s not the best reason to change, but it is one of the most effective reasons. 2. Being Bored. Interesting, huh? This is...
by Bruce McIntyre | Oct 14, 2016 | Resilience
Resilience, Courage, and Tenacity All Wrapped Into One He had been told he couldn’t do it…that he didn’t have the talent. And he believed that for years. But then, he leaned in. He caught a glimpse. It was too late for ivy league training, too late...
