Show Notes: Referenced in this episode--

• Reflections on Silver River by Ken McLeod
• Super-parenting for ADD by Edward Hallowell, M.D. 
• Brene Brown's Gifts of Imperfect Parenting audio CD

Episode description: Every tenth episode will be 3 insights or tools or quotes to assist you in thriving! Enjoy this first Three to Thrive!

It turns out joy is a stuffed suitcase. Listen to find out what contents are found inside. Hint: it's not all jolly.

Ready to give the obsession with blame a break? Listen to this episode and find out what can be done to increase your freedoms moving forward, even if someone has done you wrong.

Show notes:  From her book Light in the Wilderness, page 350, M. Catherine Thomas writes, "…God had put in place many compensations for the lapses He knew I'd suffer; I have come to accept what cannot be changed as somehow right.  I have also come to recognize that in the Lord's ecosystem, everything, noble and ignoble, serves a purpose…I now know that with the Atonement, things really are all right and that everything in the past can take its proper place."

She also quotes President Spencer W. Kimball: "…Sometime we'll understand fully, and when we see back from the vantage point of the future, we shall be satisfied with many of the happenings of this life that are so difficult for us to comprehend."

mentioned in the podcast:  Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown and Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff

Episode description: This episode attempts to bring our brains to the middle ground of two extremes. Many of us tend to resist accepting ourselves as we are right now, and others of us resist stretching ourselves to evolve. Where are you in this process?

Putting under a microscope our hope for others, this episode reveals the difference between hopes and expectations. There is a brief mention of the subtle underlying motivations for each.

What if we intercept the gospel or scriptures or church meetings and only feel darkness? What is happening? And what does it have to do with our "inner eye?" Join me in this episode to discuss hope and darkness and the meaning we make of things that happen to us.