Kim’s Blogs

The Gifts of Pessimism

Many of us choose to remain in an optimistic “mode” much of the time and others choose the pessimism route. I am here to tell you that they are both great ways to live as long as you don’t remain at one extreme or another. For today, let’s touch on the gifts that pessimism brings. As you have experienced many times in your life, things don’t always go as planned or turn out the way you expect them to or the way that you wish that they might. That is just life.

The Diet Dilemma

All diets work .The challenge is that before, during or after you experience a little success, you tend to lose some of the commitment that you began with. It is short lived and hence does not give you the impetus to continue.

Story

These are all great images but there is an insidious type of story that can bring us to our knees. It is a story that we as a child, adopted to help us cope with some sort of stress we were experiencing. It could have been parents arguing, your brother always slamming a door or a dog that ran towards you in the dark. It could also be from an adult asking you to stop talking for a moment, parents conversation with you about divorce or lack there-of or the family’s coping mechanism-overeating, smoking or substance use.