Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Healing and Humor

Have you noticed how something that is difficult to learn can be made much easier with humor? Training with Richard Bandler and John LaValle often resulted in our jaws hurting from laughing so hard. Joel and Debra infused SCS/NLP trainings with humor, too, including those who were laughing at our foibles behind our backs and […]

Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Sing for the Laughter, Sing for the Tear

A long time ago, back in the the Age of Rock & Roll, a group called Aerosmith wrote and performed a song called “Dream On”:

I confess that I am a child of the Rock & Roll era. I hit adolescence at the time Bill Haley and the Comets released Rock Around the […]

Posted May 31, 2017 in Monthly News

Playing Games

We are at our best when we are playing. When we are playing, we are having fun, and this month we decided we would do some playing with the newsletter format. Previously, we have written separate articles for the monthly newsletters, and this month we decided to try something new and co-create one article. As […]

Posted December 31, 2016 in Monthly News

Let's Laugh

After having my blood pressure be relatively stable since August after it spiked in May of this year, it spiked again last week. I am once again surrendering to the release of old emotional patterns. (You may appreciate reading my earlier blog post if this is news to you: Three Days Without Anxiety Medication.)

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Posted December 31, 2016 in Uncategorized

Let's Cry

When I first read Debra’s article for January, “Let’s Laugh,” Aerosmith’s 1973 release, “Dream On,” started playing in my head—especially the line, “Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears.” What occurred to me is what would laughter be if there were no tears?

Here are the lyrics for those who like […]