Lisa Kelleher

Why One Person Cannot Be Everything to You The Weight We Place on Romantic Love We place an enormous amount of weight on romantic relationships. One person is expected to be our partner, closest friend, emotional support, source of intimacy, intellectual equal, greatest encouragement and primary experience of love. The relationship is expected to make us feel secure, valued, understood and complete. Then we wonder why so many relationships struggle under the pressure. The problem is not...

Returning the Mind to Its Proper Place When the Mind Begins to Lead The mind is one of the most extraordinary tools available to us. It allows us to reason, imagine, create, solve problems and bring ideas into form. Everything human beings have built began as a thought. But a powerful tool is only useful when we know how to use it, and most people have never been taught how to work with the mind. They know how to think, but they have not been taught how to relate to thought itself. As a...

How Perception Shapes Your Experience You Do Not Experience Reality Directly We tend to assume that we experience reality directly. We open our eyes, look out at the world and believe that we are simply seeing what is there. It feels obvious. It feels self-evident. But when we look a little more carefully, we discover that this isn't how the human experience works. Everything we know about reality comes through perception. Every conversation, every relationship, every success, every...