Author: fullyalive

Joy – the fuel we were made to run on

Joy is the emotion that our brain runs best on. Joy, according to Jim Wilder, is “the feeling we get when we sense that someone is glad to be with us.”Learning how to return to joy from other emotions that are hard wired into us is a characteristic of emotionally mature individuals.Emotions, such as anger, […]

Shame – robber of joy

Shame robs us of joy as surely as a fire eats up up all the oxygen in a room. It is relentless and destructive.Guilt simply says that i did something wrong. Shame, on the other hand, says that there is something wrong with me. Guilt says that I made a mistake. Shame clobbers me by […]