Posts by Grammy Mo

My inner circle group has challenged me to share this writing with my blog followers. So here it is. Yesterday, I wrote about being diagnosed with PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. I was forty years old and being told I had this disorder from being a young child of just 10. Can you imagine, I had lived with this out of my awareness for 30 years already and in a couple of hours of meeting me, I am given a diagnosis. You see that is what conventional psychiatrists do. They search for symptoms, create a diagnosis and then prescribe…

Dr. William Glasser wrote the book, Choice Theory, A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, in 1998. Almost 20 years ago and this is hard to imagine. What is even more interesting is that it is still the “ new psychology of personal freedom”. It amazes me how little people know and understand about this theory.  Today more than ever we need this understanding of human behavior. It explains the how and why of what we do. Briefly it states that we are driven to satisfy one or more of our five basic needs of love, power, fun, freedom and survival.…

There is such relief in an unplugged toilet! We have been 24 hours with a plugged toilet in the main part of our house. We have another one so we did have access but it was an inconvenience. The plumber arrives and with his special snake and one twist and $115.00 dollars later, we can flush!This is a crappy story I know but "man" does it ever feel good to have it operating again. You see we thought that we could keep plunging and eventually we would be successful. But after a while you realize doing the same thing over…

As fall approaches we are entering our last quarter of the year. How has your year been? Did you accomplish all you wanted to? You still have nearly four months so what are you doing about it? Are you reaching for your goals or are you allowing distractions to side - track you? Coaching is everywhere but are you using a coach. A coach can be your biggest cheer leader.  A coach is your sounding board. A world- class coach will ask you questions that you would not ask yourself.  A world-class coach will sit and be still while you…