The V-Word

“Perceiving more feels like becoming more. You can think of it as calibrating yourself for the realization of your potential.” Alison Alstrom

This morning I didn’t have to try to have a grateful disposition. I just woke up with it. I have been meditating and focusing on my felt sense and trying to experience the physical feeling of gratitude, contentment and peace whenever and wherever I can....

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” –Johannes A. Gaertner

Another way to practice mindfulness is through intentional gratitude. In the same way that paying mindful attention expands our perceptions and broadens our minds, the work of noticing and recording moments of deep gratitude broadens and...

“Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” -Benjamin Franklin

The most profound conflict that I experience about money is often about how and where I spend my time. These issues come out for most of us in questions about whether we are here to achieve or experience. We all struggle with finding the balance between building for a secure future or...

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” -Benjamin Franklin

Our relationship to money affects every other relationship we maintain- to ourselves, to our partner, family, employers, even the government. It is the currency of exchange that creates reality. In very real and basic ways it creates our feeling...

“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” -Kahlil Gibran

Money matters. People who live in societies with more wealth are happier than people who live in impoverished nations. This is not a surprising finding that happiness and the ability to meet your basic needs go hand in hand. Yet, this direct...

‘We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other — male in female, female in male�. We are a part of each other.’ -James Baldwin

The discrepancy between the male and female forms of communication is the topic of hundreds if not thousands of books. Since John Gray’s, ‘Men are...

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.” –Booker T. Washington

Today was one of those sweet days when things seemed to be coming together. Projects that have long been buried in piles of loose ends and weighty with the challenge of conflicting...

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” -Buddha

Today I launched my own radio show. This is a dream that I have had for several years, but only this year felt like I could actually approach it. The interesting thing was that once I decided to move ahead with it, once there was no more doubt in me, the reality of the show...

Dr. Romance meets the Loveologist: Exploring Love and Intimacy with Tina Tessina, Phd, couples therapist and author of 14 books on how and why relationships work or don’t. Truly nourishing relationship talk…