The Lifeworks Group, Inc.

By: Megan Brewer IMH The ability to be alone with oneself without a rush of anxiety or an overwhelming wave of bad feelings moving through the body can feel impossible to someone who struggles with being alone. If you’ve ever wrestled with the fear of being alone, you know what I’m talking about. Even now as you think about it, the memory of a time when you were overwhelmed with being by yourself may flood into your mind, filling your body with dread and sadness. You might be remembering the long evenings when you found yourself alone and struggling to feel ok. Maybe you were planning an activity with someone and they canceled on you. Or maybe you remember a stressful season of your life where being alone with your thoughts and feelings felt like being thrown into a tailspin. What is it about being alone with ourselves that brings such anxiety and fear? When we are alone, we do not have something or someone else to draw our attention away from ourselves and...

 By Megan Brewer, IMH There is an awful lot we can learn from our experiences. After a sailing adventure my husband and I had with friends who were learning to sail, I reflected on the fact that too much control can have the opposite effect of what we hope to gain from it. Rather than gaining more control, we lose it. It is exciting to have an experience with someone who is learning something new. They have a wonderful way of bringing those around them into the experience and helping them see the wonder of a new world. This made our sailing adventure with our friends all the more fun. As we glided along the water, carried forward by the gentle wind in the sails, our friends taught us the mechanics and vocabulary of sailing. Learning to sail requires learning what seems like a new language and a whole lot of details about how the boat and wind work together. Of particular interest to me was the way a sailor must conceptualize the wind coming across the sails in order...