Conversation With Katherine

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine Conceptual Time vs Real TimeI am a lion on the plains of an African grassland. I am happily lounging with my pride and I take a look at my paw and I say OMG it is 8:00 and it is time to eat. I gather my pride and I roar it is time to hunt. Now my pride is not hungry but after all it is time to eat. I check my stomach and I am not hungry but my paw says it is TIME. So off we go a hunting because TIME told us to eat.Now this is a tongue in cheek statement. Lions don't have time on their paws and hunting is done when they start feeling hungry. Time is not something that is important to the lion. I have identified two types of Time. Conceptual Time and Real Time. Conceptual time is how we humans think about time and our relationship to time. Real Time is fixed, 60 seconds for a minute, 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours in a day.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Swamp LandThere are so many different types of fear. There is fear of commitment, fear of the unknown, fear of the known, fear of the other, fear of success, fear of failure. The one quality that fear can bring into your life is a form of paralysis that limits your ability to move forward in your life. Fear can keep you in your familiar swamp land whispering how dangerous your life is and you are safe in your swamp land, even if you are miserable. Maybe, before I continue, I should explain what I mean by swamp land. Your swamp land is your dark space. It can be where your critical voice is the dominant voice in your mental space. It can be where whatever fear you have you can't figure out a different way of being. Sometimes we have been in our swamp land so long we call it Life. Your swamp land does not allow you to access joy or happiness. It can tell you the no one is happy or joyful.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Failed EventsIn looking back at my own life I see moments in time where my path forward could have stopped because of a failed event. I describe a failed event as something that goes wrong as I have pursued my path. The something that has gone wrong was sometimes a failing of my own judgement and perspective. Sometimes it was an external event that forced me to pause in my journey. They were both failed events and both became a version of a life lesson.I am fascinated by the biographies of individuals that have achieved external success. Oftentimes, when looking at someone's success you are a witness to their success but not their journey. It is not always apparent what trials and tribulations any individual has been forced to come to terms with in their lives. It is not always apparent how one failed event could change and shape a new direction.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast-RipplesWhen I am going through a difficult time in life. I often go to the beach. I imagine I am a drop of water in the vast ocean. I muse about my own significance within the ocean space and wonder about my insignificance in the ocean space. Now, you might wonder how can wondering about your insignificance be a helpful space when things are not going well. Answer perspective. I gain perspective when I recognize how my view of the importance of my life is compared to a drop in the ocean it gives me perspective about what I am feeling at the time of my pondering.I just don't see a drop in the ocean as insignificant I also view it as magnificent. When I look at the ocean I look at the waves, tides and ripples that run through the ocean with trillions or even zillions of one drops.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my Podcast Foundational Understanding-Life's Training WheelsIn my previous podcast I used the phrase, Foundational Understanding. I would like to explain what I mean. I enjoy watching toddlers. I am always amused and delighted in watching how they begin to discover the physical world. The act of standing and seating is a magical experience for them. When they discover their legs move them, I see the look of how excited they are with the simple act of movement and the wondrous expression on their faces. When a toddler is given a pot with a spoon and can make noise for the first time, the noise may be an irritation to the adults in their life but it is magic to them.The toddler does not know the "why" of their behavior. Their ability to understand the subtle nuances of profound conceptual frameworks is missing. their vocabulary is with simple words, me, mom, daddy. the movements that I observed make me smile because of the human ability to have wonder in the simple.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast Life is Fluid-Managing ChangeI often have conversations about life and one topic continues to pop up. Change. There is something that I understand about change and that is if you have the perspective and understanding about the fluid nature of life, change is a more manageable process. I also understand that to understand some concepts you need some foundational understanding before you can get any particular conceptThink about the simple math concept two plus 2. Simple concept if you understand 1 plus 1. Foundational understandings are needed for psychological understandings, biological understanding, spiritual understandings, intellectual understandings. I think that covers mind body and spirit. Without the foundational understandings it is like I am speaking gibberish.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Impact of IntensityWhen I was thinking about intensity the first thing that happens is to acknowledge how a relationship with intensity impacts your life. Depending on your season of life the need to manage intensity would be very low in your spring season. This is the season of invincibility, where you thinking nothing bad could happen to you. Intensity is just excitement, and a lot of fun. It brings energy to the table and the seduction starts with how the energy works for you at that time of life. It makes things and people less boring and boredom is to be avoided at all costs. The surge of energy helps you accomplish tasks that you may have avoided believing that waiting to the last minute allows you to have focus, urgency and the tasks are better accomplished by you with this focused energy versus planned energy.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Seduction of IntensityI recently had a discussion with someone about how intensity can be as addictive as any drug. Intensity can become the familiar emotional barometer of the quality of life. Just think about what happens if you have a relationship with intensity. When there is a calm period in your life and things are going smoothly your relationship with intensity whispers in your ear. There is something wrong. Where is the excitement, drama, problems of living that are familiar. Your relationship with intensity can tell you that when it is present you are ALIVE. The value and desirability of your life is dependent upon how you manage the familiar siren voice of intensity.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Value vs DesirabilityThere are so many different narratives that affect our individual and collective journey. One of the main factors, in determining our direction, is the understanding of the difference between value and desirability. Let me first define what I mean when I use the word value. It is self-worth and self direction. I have found different people look at value differently depending on whether they have an internal locus of control or external locus of control they will arrive at different definitions and take a different journey.Now I have used some fancy words, internal and external locus of control simply describe "who is in charge of your life". Do you take individual responsibility for determinining your self worth and thereby determining your value. Or do others determine your self worth and value. This might seem like this is a simple process. It is not.

This is Thanksgiving 2019 and the beginning of the holiday season. In reflecting on holidays, I am struck by how a media narrative has been created. It starts with the commercials and a picture perfect holiday meal with picture perfect people around the table, looking happy and all of them are attractive. I have hosted decades of Thanksgiving parties. I have shopped, chopped and cooked a lot of food. My food is tasty and no one has ever complained about the quality or quantity. I can honestly say my turkey has never looked as good as the turkey in the commercials.I have had a series of mishaps over the years of forgetting ingredients and having to run to the store on the day of to get whatever basic ingredient was missing. For some reason, no matter how much stock I buy I always run out of stock. I think of the memory that my cooking has created for many. There will be someone who remembers their moment at my Thanksgiving celebrations.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast Working On A RelationshipI recently had a conversation with someone who told me that finding a man was very difficult. what I said to her was that finding a man is easy when you are ready. The key to that statement is "when you are ready". I have often found that when I am longing for a relationship or when I have thought that I would never be in a relationship. It was me that was preventing me from being in a relationship

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast: Micro-Aggression In my winter season, I reflect on a new word for old behavior, micro-aggression. In my life I have been both the recipient of that behavior and I have been the perpetrator of the same behavior. I find it interesting of how this new word gives a new nuanced expression to the intentional and unintentional insults that we as humans are prone to do to ourselves and others.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast "I" versus "We" Cultural NarrativesIn my getting to know people from various cultural backgrounds, I am struck by the common factors and the differences. One of the major differences is whether an "individual" comes from a community based culture versus and individual based cultureThe broader American cultural context is an individual based context. What do I mean? Think about the narratives that are used in this country. The climbing up the ladder of success by your bootstraps. The value of independence versus a collective decision. The freedoms of making your own individual decisions about who you marry, where you live, your profession and any other "I" decision that comes to mind. That is an intellectual way of stating, in this country we value choice and the freedom to make independent decisions.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast A Gift From The Journey: Grief, Death and LoveIn this podcast I am talking about a very specific type of grief. The grief for someone that you have loved that has died. This is a knock you to your knees event and you are not sure that you will be able to get up. Maybe you are not sure that you even want to get up. Your world has suddenly changed and the hardest thing to accept is how quick death comes and the finality of death.The world you knew, the person you knew, the love you knew has been replaced with the void of longing. In my own experience with death I gained an understanding of what I did not understand. I understood all of the cognitive things about death and the various conceptual contexts. I did not understand the experience of death.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast NarrativesAs humans, we collectively have various thoughts, ideas, concepts that help formulate stories in our mind. Those stories are influenced by our broader cultural context, family, friends, media and a few of those thoughts will become the narrative that helps formulate our identity. These messages can be overt or covert.It is amazing how the choices in my life have been influenced by my narrative. I have several narratives. I am black, woman, mother, wife, sister, professional, friend and other narratives that I have discarded over time. Each narrative that I have embraced as part of my identity has influenced the choices that I have made in my life. How can a simple story in my head influence my choice you might ask?

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast ISMI have traveled a great deal. In my travels, I frequently have encountered various types of "ISMS". It could be sexism, tribalism, racism. Al of the ISM have a common feature, no matter what country or culture. They generally are negative perceptions of a group. The negative perceptions usually involved disparaging remarks. The word "they" and "those people" are often common descriptive terms. Each culture that I visited looks at other cultures with askance at their "ISM" and generally ignores their own.I know of someone who came from an African country and at the embassy they were warned not to associate with Black Americans. "Because they will bring you down". When I was in Fiji a Gypsy warned me against the Native Fijians. The Gypsy used all of the negative statements about Native Fijians the I had previously heard about Gypsies.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Adventure Cuba.My Cuba adventure was a combined adventure. I had never taken a cruise so part of my adventure was experiencing a cruise for the first time. When I thought of a cruise I could not imagine myself out on the sea with no sight of land. I imagined getting sea sick and not enjoying the journey. Imagination is interesting. In imagining the worse I did not give myself an opportunity to have the experience.I had heard people in my life rave about how much fun cruises were and how great the food was on the cruise. It did not change my mind for a long time until....my mind was changed. What changed my mind, Cuba. I have wanted to go to Cuba for a long time and going on a cruise was my way to finally go to Cuba.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast Adventure BaliMy adventure in solo travel since November 2018 has given me both challenges and benefits. Learning the different aspects of myself has been an internal adventure. My adventure with Bali started a decade ago. I had heard from someone that I knew how beautiful Bali was and I put it in the back of my mind. It has been on my bucket list since I first heard of Bali. I would periodically look online but life was too busy and I never made the time. I find the time in my life focused on career took up much of my life.In November 2018 I was starting my old habits of focusing on making my life busy and I said to myself. I want an adventure. I decided to stop with the busy and focus on having fun. Now, international travel is very different than just going across the country. The trip started with a 17 hour plus travel time not including layovers.

When you meet someone for the first time and your eyes lock and you feel that spark, you climb on your emotional fence and say "Hmmmmmm". The difference between the upside and downside is not the feeing. The difference is asking yourself some questions before you leap. Now you can still leap fairly quickly if you have learned some assessment skills. In my life, I have built an emotional fence that allows me some distance to be able to gain some perspective. Now I will be the first to admit that when that great feeling hits, it is very hard to have perspective. Some perspective is better than no perspective. So what do I mean? Try to look at the person from their point of view and not your point of view.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast Meaning of WordsI know, I know, you may think that I am writing about the Meaning of Life. Nope, I am actually writing about the Meaning of Words. I am struck by how often we use words and how the meaning of those words is so individual that it almost guarantees communication problems.Let me give you an example..in my line of work there is a phrase "best interest of the child" now this phrase is used and misused frequently. There is no clear definition of what is "best interest of the child". If you were to line up five people each person would have a different meaning for those words. So, everyone waves their banner and states they have the "best interest of the child" in mind. Now my position is I can not take a look into the future and know for certain that the decision I make is the perfect decision or even the right decision.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Adventure, Bangkok. I recently went on a short trip to Bangkok, Thailand. When I arrived in Bangkok my first impression is did all of the people of the earth come to this city today. Bangkok has ten million people that live in the city and it felt like there were five millions cars on the road. Traffic is horrific and it can literally take you five minutes to go one block. Traffic is also chaotic and I don't know whether to admire or be confused by anyone that does not live there to want to have the driving adventure in the city.The city is teeming with people and high rise apartments where the elite of Bangkok live. It was explained to me that the reason there are so many cars is most people that work in Bangkok can't afford to live there and they commute for hours. It is also the reason for the many street vendors who supply those with meals that are on the run.

When you have loss someone that you love, time appears to stand still. The world moves at a slower pace and the pain is great. What happens when it is not your grief that you have to manage? Time moves at its normal pace but for the person in your life there is a disconnect. Managing your own personal grief is jut that, it's personal. Managing how you handle someone's else grief is more difficult.Grief changes a person. The person that you know has changed and how do you cope with this new person. They can be moody, difficult, curt, weepy, and on some days just plain old rude. It is difficult dealing with this individual because you can't look inside of them and fix their pain. Nor can you know how long their grief will last. When you are in normal time someone else's grief can seem like a long time. For the person who is grieving time is not what is important. there is no magic time for grief, it can take months and sometimes years for a person to manage their grief.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my Podcast Life is FluidAs I go about my life change always seems to be ever present. Relationships change evolve or devolve as the circumstances unfold. Change and the fluid nature of life appears to be the one constant that is forever in my life.When I was in my spring season time and change did not seem to happen very quickly. Everything seem to move at a slower pace. My impatient nature was constantly being challenged to slow down when I wanted everything to hurry up. I did not understand that life was fluid and anything that I thought would be a forever moment really was one of life's illusions.

This post was written in May, 2011 when I was having a difficult time Finding The Joy in my Life. Recently I have been trying to find the Joy in my life. It feels like it is hiding from me or that I need a secret code to discover the joy. Joy is elusive on a good day. String a few bad days together and Joy is impossible to find. So, I am on a mission. This is Mother's Day and it should be a joyous day. For some it will be the celebration that they had hoped for in their heart. For others it will be just another day of disappointment and failed expectations.So what keeps me from finding my joy. The answer to that question is simple....Me. I keep me from finding the Joy that is waiting for me. I want to make a distinction from Joy and Pleasure. I think that Joy is something deeper than Pleasure. They do have some things in common. They can both be transitory. So what would my life look like if I could find the Joy in life.

If asked, most people could describe greatness. It may be an event, skill, heroic moment or person, a self-sacrificing moment. Many people think of public figures as having greatness. There is greatness all around our lives both public and private.The parent that gets up to go to a job that they hate to provide and care for their family has greatness. That parent is willing to sacrifice for those that they love. The adolescent that works in a fast food restaurant rather than become a street drug dealer looking for the easy dollar has greatness. The child that studies in school and gets good grades in spite of being teased by their peers is great. The person that has a terminal illness that makes the choice to live life until they die rather than waiting for death. The person that has an emotional hit to their gut that knocks them to their knees that finds the heart to get up.

This is my children's book, Adventures of Tiger and Her Friends, Embracing Differences to help parents and children have a positive dialog about differences. Children are aware of differences in each other and this book facilitates the positive discussion of racial , social, physical, and family differences. Tiger discovers how her mixed heritage allows her to feel strong and her difference can be fun because she is loved. Having a positive exploration about difference can help your child understand the benefits of being different. Understanding that sometimes being different can hurt or be scary gives a chance to have a positive dialog about kindness. The book is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble.

I have been having solitary adventures since, November, 2018. the majority of those adventures have involved me traveling to new places. I went to Savannah, Georgia November, 2018, this was my very first solidarity adventure. I followed that adventure with a trip to New Orleans, December 2018, Iceland, February, 2019, Austin, Texas, March, 2019, Bali, April, 2019 and Cuba, May 2019. As you can see, I was trying to make sure that I accumulated plenty of air miles.These adventures have taught me a lot about myself. I have a travel companion that I take on my adventures her name is Magic. Now, Magic is my externalize name that I have given for an aspect of myself. Before you start thinking of multiple personality, it is my belief that we as humans have different aspects of ourselves. We can be kind, not kind, good, not good as humans we don't operate as singular entities. These different aspects allow us to engage in different ways under different circumstances.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Season of Living/WinterWinter is our time to make peace. Peace with ourselves and the decisions that we have made in life. Peace with others. Peace with the success or failures that we have had in life. Winter is a confirmation season. We know where our paths have taken us and what we have achieved. In our winter years there are fewer years ahead, than we have behind us. The years go quickly. It can be a time of reflection and a time when your personal mortality and those that you love can become ever present issues. Mortality can be an issue in any life season but in your winter season you will face the mortality of those that have accompanied you on your journey.

Welcome To Conversation with Katherine and my podcast FailureFailure is an interesting thing. It can take us to dark places in our spirit. It can makes us question ourselves and others. There are people that lose their faith because of failure. If you are fortunate and you come out of the other end you will gain perspective. Perspective is one of those interesting words that is hard to define, but you will know when you have perspective. You will be able to see the picture with clarity and without blame. Perspective leads to wisdom. This is the gift that is given you when you complete the process. Let there be no mistake failure "sucks". But it is also life's pruning of our spirits and a reminder that life is a fluid process.

I recently heard some sad news. A person that I used to work with had a tragedy in her family. Her husband was killed in a house fire. I was a "witness" to their very loving relationship. Let me share with you what I witnessed. This was a unique couple, the man was the Meat and Potatoes and the Ice Cream Sundae all rolled up into one person. The woman would be huffing and puffing around the house and her husband would quietly be in the background. He was a "fixer upper" in the home. He always had all of these projects that were in various stages of completion.He was in the middle of one of his many projects. putting a new tile in the kitchen and he was two years into the project. Now that would have made me "crazy". I would not have been able to tolerate something unfinished for that length of time. I said to her "why don't you just go and hire someone to finish the job". her response "I love him more than I need a floor"

Warm and fuzzy on the outside and Attila the Hun on the inside. Everyone knows a person like this but sometimes they are very hard to spot. Let me tell you about who I am not talking about. I am not talking about when you get into your emotional Sunday best to try to impress. When you are on a first date, job interview, meeting your lovers family and friends for the first time. There is a little pretender in all of us. No I am talking about the most scary of the Pretenders.

My being a social worker is my second major business life. My first major business life was the pursuit of money. I have a secret that I would like to share. Making money is fun. Anyone that tells you that it is not fun never made any money. But let me regress and tell you how I started on that path.I was newly divorced with a young child to raise. My first plan which was to marry, live well, have a couple of children didn't work. Like many women I was looking for my Prince Charming who would take care of me and we would live happily ever after.After all isn't that what all of the Disney movies say will happen? Well it didn't. I found myself working in not the most fun job for a major corporation.

It is interesting in my life how having expectations have shifted my reality. In my spring season I wrote this letter to myself about how I wanted a man to treat me. Now I don't have a copy of that letter but I remember being very idealistic about what I expected. I think that one of my expectations was that a man in my life would open my door. I am bemused by my memory of what those expectations meant to me at that very young phase of my life. I imagine expectations to be like the tide that comes to the shore. You think that you know what to expect but every time the tides do a different dance.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Ice Cream Sundaes. Ice cream sundaes are attractive to the eye, sweet to the taste and not good for your long term health. How do you spot the ice cream sundae in your life. I describe them as the too, too people. Too tall, too short, too rich, too poor, too fine, too ugly, too hot, too cool. They are as individual as any ice cream sundae and they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. They all have one thing in common, they do not bring substance to your life.Their are people who have a life of ice cream sundaes. Every relationship they have is based on how good the person makes them feel. They don't look for anything deeper than that feel good experience. They try the different types of sundaes but they never look for the meat and potatoes type of person.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Meat and Potatoes. A meat and potatoes person brings gravitas to the relationship. They usually don't bring to the relationship trauma or drama. They say what they mean, keep their commitments, they are reliable. The downside is that because there is no drama and/or trauma they can be somewhat boring.You have to be in a certain season of your life to have a genuine appreciation for this type of individual. It could be all of the fast pace, fast living that we see in the media where all problems are solved in thirty minutes or less and love happens in under an hour with commercials. That may be why appreciation of this individual is so rare.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Season of Living SpringI often think of life as divided into seasons. There is the spring full of promise and exciting. Summer when we are growing and enjoying the fruits of our labor. Fall is a time of reflection an if necessary course correction. Winter is hopefully a time of peace and benefiting from all of our labor.Lets start with spring. Those of you who live where there is snow know that there is nothing more dramatic than spring. Everywhere there is change. When I have young clients. I think of them as being in their spring season. They are full of promise and hope. They believe that any adult that is over the age of twenty is old and doesn't know what they are talking about. If they are exceptionally smart then that creates a bigger problem. When they are very smart they know they have all of the answers because they have thought about the question.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Season of Living/FallIn our fall season we are all grown up. The decision that we have made are done and we are either at a point of going forward or possibly making a course correction. In my fall season, my daughter was a teenager and my perfect corporate job was falling apart.In the corporate culture, at that time, the corporation was considered to be a family. It was not uncommon for multi-generations to work at the company. Things started to shift and the corporate family dissolved. The company stopped being family and became everyone for themselves. New executives were hired, I called them the beast masters who were designed to shake up the company, get rid of dead weight and prepare the company for sale.

Welcome to Conversation With Katherine and my podcast Season of Living-SummerSummer is our lets get busy and be a grown-up time. It is time to finish school, start careers, family,marriage. It is the time, in our lives, we cultivate ourselves and others. Sumer is mostly about work. While spring is about new beginnings summer is about those things that we planted in the spring, that need to be tended to or they will not thrive.In the summer of my life I started my real career. Prior to that I had a going to school job. It paid the bills and I did not starve. When summer came I wanted to move forward with my life. Finishing school was the first step. The thing about school is that it is not always easy to finish in a timely fashion. It took me 5 years to finish college. I guess that is about average now, but not when I was in school. Summer is about accomplishments and striving.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Witness/ObserverIt is my personal belief that being a witness to others is a powerful gift that we give to them and to ourselves. When we are the Witness/Observer of the event in the lives of others it can have an impact on our lives. What we witness becomes a narrative in our "mind world" which is filtered through our thoughts, beliefs, truths and sometimes faith. When Hurricane Katrina happened in New Orleans, there were people in "talk radio" that said the people that were suffering were being "punished" by God.(side personal private rant. If I were God I would be very tired of people using my name to describe their very personal "mind world" end of rant)

I find that people are like gems. Some rough, some polished. If you are walking down the street and you see a shinning gem do you pick it up? Do you pick it up and then decide that it is not big enough, shiny enough, not valuable enough and then toss it away. Then another person walks by and picks up that same gem and decides it is the perfect gem for them. A diamond does not lose its value because you throw it away. It just doesn't have value for you. In your spring and summer seasons of life many times you wrestle with the "Why". "Why didn't they love me, like me,want me, care about me". You look in the mirror and think that if you change your hair, your clothes, your weight, your style that you will become "good enough" for that person. Most of the time it does not work. Everyone does not value Everyone. It is sad, but true that you can make yourself over and it still won't work.

Welcome to Conversation with Katherine and my podcast Buying the UpsideWhen you meet that special person and your eyes lock and your heart beats a mile a second you have a spark. You may say to yourself, this is the one. I say that you are buying the feeling not the person. Buying the Upside is very common in the American culture. This is a romantic culture in which we have such hopeful optimism about what romance brings to our lives. Other cultures have similar concepts, how they define their upside is different. All upsides are not warm and fuzzy. Some people have dark places in their spirits. They see the world as a pretty gloomy place. In their world, all men are dogs and all women are a word that rhymes with witch. Now, it would be nice if they would just meet each other and leave the rest of us out of their world but no, no they have just got to raise havoc with the rest of us.

This is the first post in my book, A Gift From The Journey. I wrote this post as a response to an observation of a person who has a lot of drama in their life. Romance is the hope for love and drama can keep you from finding love.I talk about the original post and what are my current thoughts about romance. Romance is divided into three stages. Stage 1 the beginning is fun and exciting. Stage 2 can be comfortable. Stage 3 is the end which is sad. My goal is to create conversations about many of some of the facets of our lives and how there is a common theme in all of our humanity;

Light houses help ships navigate dangerous waters. Authentic people can help you navigate the waters of your life. Authentic people bring trust and credibility to the table. You may not alway agree with them, but you know what they are telling you is their truth.

Drama is emotional theater. Drama creates muddy waters where your individual clarity becomes lost. However, drama can still be exciting and addictive. How drama starts and impacts your life can change the quality and direction of your life.