friendship

Love Heals All Wounds

Linda Kent is the founder of Clearly Rising, LLC, with her certification as a Holistic Life Coach through Alan Cohen’s Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching. Her spiritual journey began in the early 1980’s when she began searching for spiritual meaning to my life. In the beginning she read many spiritual books and worked with my spiritual teacher, Carla Gordan. She was taught massage by a blind chiropractor and began practicing massage therapy before Texas required a license. She became more involved in energy work that complimented what I was doing in massage by way of intuitively receiving visions and auditory messages for my clients that was pertinent to what they most needed to receive. The spiritual guidance she received created a clear message to write a book. She was given the title at that time, “Love Heals All Wounds”. She is currently pursuing a new career as an author with this book that will soon be published.
Website: https://clearlyrising.com/

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Parenting Styles: When Parents Don’t Agree

Today, I answer a Listener’s call about a conflict with her husband over mealtimes with their 4 year old.

I step back and start with the big picture. I discuss the fundamental differences between couples, based in sexual reproduction, the evolution of our species based in family and childbearing practices.

Then looking at fundamental emotional dynamics in the family, I give specific feedback and suggestions on how my listener can negotiate with her husband.

If you have a question that you would like me to speak about on my show, you can email me at mercy@leadershipwithmercy.com

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Politics and Friendship

A listener writes in asking about her reluctance to talk about politics with a good friend. She knows this friend is “on the other side” in his political views. She does not believe either she or her friend can be persuaded by the other and therefore wants to avoid the unpleasantness of the inevitable conflict. At the same time she feels that there is an elephant in the room and she is not being an honest and true friend. In this show I discuss the pros and cons of political conversations with friends, Braver Angels – an organization whose mission is to bridge political divides and guidelines for navigating these relationships.
To explore Braver Angels go to www.braverangels.org

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Anxiety About Money Runs in Families

Today, Mercy will continue to answer questions about friendships. She will review not only a listener’s dilemma and her response, but also moving along to answer about whether she should keep the friend. She will also chat about two other questions when a husband and his best friend and a friend threesome and give principles that you can use to navigate your friendships

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Love Triangle

Today, Mercy will continue to answer questions about friendships. She will review not only a listener’s dilemma and her response, but also moving along to answer about whether she should keep the friend. She will also chat about two other questions when a husband and his best friend and a friend threesome and give principles that you can use to navigate your friendships

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Friendships and Triangles: Part 2

Today, Mercy will continue to answer questions about friendships. She will review not only a listener’s dilemma and her response, but also moving along to answer about whether she should keep the friend. She will also chat about two other questions when a husband and his best friend and a friend threesome and give principles that you can use to navigate your friendships

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Should I Break Up with My Friend? – A System’s view of Friendship

Today, I answer a listener’s question about a troubling friendship. Friendships are an important part of our social network. They give us space from the close bonds of family. Sometimes they are embedded in our families and help us get along with each other. And for others, friends are their “families of choice”. Along with this, friendships can be as difficult to manage as relationships in the family. Today I talk about how dynamics born out of the family play out in our friendships. When and how to talk about difficult subjects. And how to decide when to let a friendship go.

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