Run Away: Part III-Five Conflict-Related Questions to Ask Stan Goldberg April 24, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the DayWe often try to isolate events in our lives from everything that precedes and follows it. The practice is delusional at best, destructive at it’s...
Run Away: Part II—The Emotional Cost of Conflict Stan Goldberg April 22, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day2 CommentsMaybe it’s because I recently turned 70 and finally acquired the wisdom gained from numerous failures. Or possibly I realize that winning isn’t...
Run Away: Part I-Life Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero-Sum Game Stan Goldberg April 20, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the Day6 CommentsWe are led to believe success means winning; whether it’s defeating cancer, coming out ahead in a negotiation, prevailing in a family conflict or...
Squishy Memories: Part III-Corralling The Mind Stan Goldberg March 27, 2015 Life, Thoughts of the DayIn some ways, our memories are like a herd of cattle on an open range; trying to go in whatever direction they choose. Unless they can be controlled...
Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part III) Preventing Family Conflict Stan Goldberg January 30, 2015 Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day1 CommentIn Part I of Family Conflict, I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. In Part II I wrote that...
Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part II) Why Truth is Relative Stan Goldberg January 28, 2015 Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day1 CommentIn Part I of Family Conflict I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. There is an amazing...
A Lesson from Terrorism: Violence and The Grayness of Life Stan Goldberg January 16, 2015 Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day2 CommentsTHOUGHT OF THE DAY. Each day’s new violence makes people want to retreat into a 1950’s bomb shelter, or buy a home in a gated and guarded...
Why World Violence and Family Conflicts are More Connected Than You Think Stan Goldberg December 16, 2014 Caregiving, Thoughts of the Day2 CommentsTHOUGHT OF THE DAY. Yesterday we saw three seemingly unconnected events that shocked the world. The murder of Australians by an extremist in...
Family Conflict: Selective Manipulation of the Past Stan Goldberg November 24, 2014 Caregiving, Thoughts of the DayAs violence continues in the Mideast, people who are attacked ignore the past—only the present is important to them, as it is within some families....
