Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites Sandy Weaver

Have you ever been in a spirited discussion where you and the other person were on opposite sides of the fence?

Whether the person you were talking with is a friend, acquaintance, co-worker, family member or complete stranger, this Tiny Bite is for you. It’s for you if you’ve never been in an argument, because someday you probably will be.

Ask questions. Listen. Be open to hearing their experiences about whatever it is you’re discussing.

Share yours when it’s your turn, and share experiences instead of opinions. People will listen to your stories about a topic, even when they disagree with your opinion. People won’t listen to your opinion if you’re not listening to their stories.

When you can share stories and ask questions, you show that you’re open to learning from the other person. When you can only share opinions, you may be perceived as a conversational bully.

Be teachable – that means being open to learning from people, even those who disagree with you.

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Have you ever been the broken-hearted half of a breakup?

It hurts soooooo bad! As the sharpness of the pain begins to recede, anger creeps in, along with anger’s ugly cousin, blame.

It’s easy to blame the end of the relationship on the other person, and in a lot of ways, it’s very satisfying, too. The healing process includes the anger and blame – can you make yourself speed through that as quickly as possible?

Because here’s the truth – it’s never one person or the other, it’s both.


Yes, the ex misbehaved.
Yes, the ex didn’t live up to your expectations.
And yes, those expectations are YOURS, not theirs.

You can expect things from yourself, and you have every right to get upset if you don’t live up to your expectations. When someone else doesn’t, ask yourself – was it their job to live up to your expectations?

If things were reversed, would you live up to their expectations of you if you didn’t want to?

No one is here to dance to anyone else’s tune if they don’t want to. Pick up the pieces of your heart and start dancing again like the ex doesn’t matter. Because they don’t.

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Godwinks…impulses…undeniable urges…do you get those, too? When you follow the impulse, doesn’t it feel magical?

Today I was working on a project, totally focused. Suddenly it popped into my head to open the Nextdoor app and offer to give away a lectern that had been in my garage for years. I learned long ago to just follow the impulse whenever possible, so I put aside the project and posted pictures and a description.

That was about three hours ago. A man and his teen son are coming to pick it up any minute now. His wife realized just this morning that she needed a lectern for the memorial service she’s holding in a beautiful garden day after tomorrow, so she opened Nextdoor to see if anyone local had anything she could make work.

My lectern is just what she was thinking of.

That wasn’t a coincidence, it was meant to work out just that way. Trust your undeniable urges, your impulses, your godwinks. We’re connected in ways we don’t understand, and yet we are connected.

Trust your inner knowing.

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Once upon a time, bedtime stories told of a time when dragons threatened damsels, knights on powerful steeds rode to the rescue, and there was a fairy-tale wedding and a happily-ever-after.

Yes, there are a lot of variations on the theme, yet the same simple lesson was stamped into our heads – things threaten, and people will save us and give us great lives.


What if you don’t need to be saved?
What if you are the knight on a powerful steed, able to slay your own dragons?
What if you found true love because of the love part instead of the need part?

How powerful would you feel to surround yourself with the people you enjoy spending time with instead of those you had to spend time with in order to survive and thrive? Can you think of yourself as your own knight in shining armor?

Will you, starting today?

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Do you ever what-if yourself?

Most of us do – buyer’s remorse is a common phrase for a reason. Especially after making a major purchase, many people go through a few days or weeks of what-iffing:


what if I didn’t choose the best car
what if I could have gotten more money at the new job
what if this person I’ve agreed to marry turns out to be Mr. Wrong instead of Mr. Right?

What if you could banish what-iffing from your life? The angst is probably caused by the fear of getting it wrong, whatever “it” is.

The truth is, no decision is ever done as long as you’re still breathing. You can always make a different choice later if this one doesn’t suit you. You can get a different car, or ask for a raise or bonus or performance bump, and you can say “no” to a marriage even after you’ve said “yes.”

A decision is just something you do with a given set of facts and feelings. If the facts and feelings change, you can make a new decision.

Doesn’t that help you let go of what-if?

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How are you feeling today? Kind of blah? Maybe worse than just “blah” – maybe you’ve got a case of the blues?

That happens to us all now and then, and especially if you’re someone who is usually upbeat, the blues can be quite upsetting.

The science can’t explain exactly how, though researchers are closing in on cellular memory as it relates to humans. The hypothesis is that our memories, especially those related to major, adverse events in our lives, don’t just live in the brain, they’re stored in other places in the body, too.

What if a day where you just randomly have the blues is really the anniversary of an adverse event in your life? That’s happened to me, and maybe it’s happened to you, too.

Be kind to yourself on the days when you’re blue or just blah – it could be your body crying tears you can’t see.

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