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Have you ever had a mentor in your life that could see more in you than you see in yourself? In 1988, I attended Reality Therapy Certification in Phoenix Arizona, where I met my instructor, Jeanette McDaniel. I was young and very nervous about the 15-minute presentation that I needed to do to be Certified.  I worked and worked to get my presentation down to 15 minutes even on the night before I had to give it.   Jeanette truly demonstrated all that I had learned to become certified. She was encouraging and assured me she was sure my presentation…

Many years ago in my nursing profession, I was charged with being in charge in the operating room where I was working. I was very young and had no management or leadership training. I had no clue about the pictures staff had in their head about their work, etc. All I knew was it was up to me to set the time schedules for all staff and to make sure we had supplies and that things ran as they were supposed to.   I did the best I could do at the time with what I knew at the time.…

Recently I watched a video with Dr. Edith Edgar and this quote sang out to me. I pondered the quote the opposite of depression is expression and although I have over 35 years’ experience as a licensed counselling therapist, I had not heard this before. It made perfect sense to me. My mentor and teacher Dr. Glasser stated that it is perfectly normal for all of us to depress at different times in our life and he describes three reasons why we choose to depress. One of those reasons is to restrain the anger.   My thought was that if…

I remember in my early years doing presentations for parents and youth saying that “knowledge is power.” But when I learned Reality Therapy which is a fail-safe communication process, I learned from Dr. Glasser that using knowledge is power.   It made total sense to me. Of course, using knowledge is power so if we teach a bunch of information that does not mean anything to some, then they have the knowledge but they will not use it because it is not need-satisfying. In his book Quality Schools Dr. Glasser talks about the importance of sharing with students the reason…