by Mark Edge | Apr 14, 2023 | Emotional Health
I’ve got to admit it. When I think of the name Hank Williams, I think of Junior. He is so embedded in American culture, particularly for those who have been fans of Monday Night Football, hearing his song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” adapted for the...
by Mark Edge | Mar 17, 2023 | Emotional Health
Last week I spoke to members of the Better Business Bureau. I don’t know if anything I said made an impression, but I do know that something someone else wrote did. Back in the nineties, a newspaper writer included many sad and disturbing items about what was...
by Mark Edge | Mar 9, 2023 | Emotional Health
Many years ago, a lady wrote in Readers’ Digest about an act she did to demonstrate her gratitude. She lived in Chicago, and her city was suffering from a heat wave. Newspapers wrote that Chicago’s workers were in danger of dehydration. This woman decided...
by Mark Edge | Aug 22, 2020 | Emotional Health
1. Note the individual’s arm and leg movement. 2. In a discreet ad non-threatening way, mirror the movement. 3. Do this to improve your ability to build a connection with and demonstrate the importance of the other person. See Richard E. Maurer and Jeffrey H....
by Mark Edge | Mar 27, 2020 | Emotional Health
A good reminder to look for the humanity in others: in his excellent book THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE, the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk wrote about his teacher making the rounds with him in a psychiatric hospital. “What would you call this patient,” van der Kolk...
by Mark Edge | Mar 25, 2020 | Emotional Health
Yesterday, we noted that when we tell a story, we can help people listening connect from the left brain to the right, we can summon them to invest in the story, and that the listeners can even find multiple meanings and lessons in the story. Today, allow me to pass...
