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A Balanced Life: Strengthening One's "Observing Self"
Within our mind's abode, our observing self has been present and available, since our beginning. Defined as that conscious part of our...
donshunter
Apr 21, 20232 min read
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A Balanced Life: Resolution-Focused Practice
There is a ritual I have come to practice, when I have issues (problems) that require attention and/or a solution – and there are many of...
donshunter
Mar 27, 20231 min read
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A Balanced Life: Neutralizing That Inner Critic
When you have promised yourself that you will have a balanced and happy life, there are constant hurdles that one has to negotiate. This...
donshunter
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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A Balanced Life: Out of Control
I can only 'balance' that which is within my control - what transpires outside of my immediate world, is not something I can change,...
donshunter
Jan 24, 20232 min read
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A Balanced Life: Relationship Adjustments
All close relationships require adjustments from time to time - sometimes more often than other times. When we get busy with work and...
donshunter
Jan 12, 20231 min read
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A Balanced Life: Achieving Balance
For many of us when we think about balance, we want to see things as equal. However, when considering balance in our lives, it is...
donshunter
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life: The Slippery Slope into Negativity
I often speak about the understanding that most of the conversation we each have, are with ourselves. I bring this up because when we...
donshunter
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life: Sifting Through the "News"
We used to have the radio on most of the time when the kids were younger, which meant that news updates were frequent. Each morning we...
donshunter
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life: Living with Chronic Daily Pain
How can one achieve balance in the midst of pain? Is that even possible? I believe there are times when such a sense of balance is...
donshunter
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life: Regulating Emotions
One of the core beliefs in Emotion Focused Therapy is that it is our emotions that drive us – its emotions that start our internal engine...
donshunter
Oct 29, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life: Co-Parenting
Negotiating significant relationships in one’s life is always an ongoing task, a work in progress, that impacts one’s self-esteem. When...
donshunter
Oct 10, 20223 min read
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A Balanced Life: Balance in Parent/Child Relationships
There are not many parents who don't struggle with how technology is impacting the lives of the growing children. Over the past 10 years...
donshunter
Sep 30, 20221 min read
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A Balanced Life: Attachments
In this ever increasing digital age, parents are in danger of losing parental power and control. Social Media continually pushes kids to...
donshunter
Sep 11, 20221 min read
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A Balanced Life: "Clinging & Suffering"
We often want to hold onto happy and joyful times, as long as we possibly can, and when they pass, we hold onto the memory. We want to...
donshunter
Aug 23, 20222 min read
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A Balanced Life
A Balanced Life: "On Balance" (Weekly Blog by Don S. Hunter, 2022) Reducing the Impact of Stress and Anxiety When I think about a...
donshunter
Aug 15, 20223 min read
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