Posts Tagged "family"
How to Be Yourself with Family, Chosen and Not
I have never met a person who had not experienced complex feelings about their family – and who did not experience some difficulty around family dynamics, especially during the holiday season. People often ask me about how best to approach tough familial issues and the most effective answer I have found is to stay true to yourself. Many people have developed two versions of themselves, the one their family has known and the person they have become out-of-sight of those people. These two personas often come crashing together as sharing the holidays becomes a battle of the family of birth and the one since created. This weekend, take some time to think about these two...
Read MoreWeekend Wondering – Thanksgiving, Families and Leadership
With Thanksgiving around the corner, this weekend is our last before the Holiday Season kicks into high gear. How are you feeling about the Holidays? If you are like most people, a host of emotions trailing back to childhood color our experience of the annual festivities. Thanksgiving has become the time when we gather with family and friends and toast the success of brave pilgrims weathering the challenges of a new world. That is until the food orgy, football games and familial disputes run us into the biggest shopping day of the year. One way to freshen our traditional feelings of thanks this year is to look at yourself and your leadership in a new light. Living the...
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