RESPONSE ABILIT (PDF-1787)

I am taking off my story-telling hat and putting on my didactic hat, because I keep running across folks in my life that have managed to paint themselves into one corner or another because they react instead of respond. It makes me want to comment, and I am. I have been counseling for something like 45 years now, and I want to share with you what I find to be a key factor in that experience. Much of what takes place in a counseling session boils down to how a person responds to what is happening to them in their life. We can’t control what others say and do to us personally, much less what happens in the outside world of news events. That is what dictators try to do and they all eventually fail.