Hi Pat --

You are a fabulous woman, and I feel so grateful that you and other wonderful people here who are on a mission of self-improvement and helping others. It really helps, I think, when people share very specific ways that their thinking changes.

I teach communication. One of the most challenging things, for students, I think is to take research and theory and see how they can apply what they've learned to improve some communication dilemma in their own lives.

I think the same goes for CBT and other strategies that we learn. This post certainly also would have fit on the wonderful self-esteem forum that Dr. John started for us.