Conversations with Cinthia

Refresher Course: Three Core Truths (11-25-18)

Today, Cinthia gives a refresher course on three core truths she has learned in her life.  These truths are foundational to all her teachings on "being your own best version," and she emphasizes these throughout her clinical practice, consulting work, artistic endeavors, personal life, and just about everywhere else.  These involve our value and significance, our power to impact ourselves and the world around us, and the inevitability of pain and necessity of managing it.

I Am With You Always

Have you ever received a gift or gift certificate that you thought you could really use, only to come across it months (or years) later and realize you never got around to using it?  Before going to prepare a place for us, Jesus told His disciples that He was leaving His own peace for His followers as a parting gift.  Do you use this gift?  Has it taken over your life?  How do we open, use, and immerse ourselves in this gift Jesus gave?

Stop Playing It Safe

Why do some of us who trust Jesus with our eternity have trouble living our earthly lives with abandon? Jesus told a parable in which a servant buried what was entrusted to him, keeping it safe but not letting it grow into more, and the servant's master was outraged.  What gets in the way of you living your life?  Fear?  Regret?  Lack of purpose?  Cinthia encourages us to let go of our determination to play it safe and passionately live the lives God gave us?

Guest Scott Stein: The Power Of A Minute

What would it do for your career if you could get more done in less time?  How would it change your family?  Your health?  Cinthia's guest today is a speaker, mentor, and author who works with business leaders around the world.  Today he discusses his new book, Leadership Hacks, and offers practical tips for managing emails, improving delegation skills, and more.  Cinthia then discusses how the ways we value and spend our minutes become the ways we spend our lives.  

Connection and Comparison in Social Media

Do you get happier as you browse Facebook?  Are you more grateful and satisfied with your life than you were when you logged on?  Social media can be a wonderful tool, but it can also foster unrealistic expectations, unhelpful comparisons, and the illusion that we are engaging in deeper relationship than we actually are.  Cinthia explores how we can manage our thinking to make the most of our social media use, rather than letting it define our ideas of how life is or should be.  

Self-Acceptance

What would it mean for you to accept the things you can't change?  Would it change the battles you pick?  Alter the way you fight those battles?  Give you peace as you work toward something better, or help you enjoy what you already have?  Cinthia explores her frequent statement that acceptance is the key to all our problems, and she specifically examines the very difficult task of accepting ourselves.  If you struggle with self-acceptance, let this episode help you.

Expectations in Healthy Relationships, Part 2

Last week, Cinthia discussed the importance of appropriate expectations in relationships.  If we know even good relationships won't be perfect, however, then what next?  How do we manage relationships that are meeting basic standards of health but could use a dose of positivity, healing, fun, or transformation?  Cinthia explores how to contribute positively where it matters most.

Healthy Relationship Expectations, Part 1

Have you ever heard it said that the key to avoiding disappointment is to lay aside your expectations?  Cinthia suggests that healthy expectations are, in fact, things we should keep and cultivate in our close relationships; intimacy can't exist without them!  What are healthy, helpful expectations?  Cinthia explores this in the first of a two-part series.

Highly Sensitive People, Part 2: Highly Sensitive and Overly Sensitive People

If you recognized yourself or someone you love in last week's descriptions of the highly sensitive person, you may be asking yourself what to do next.  Being highly sensitive can be a gift, but it requires lots of self-management.  And how do we differentiate between high sensitivity and over-sensitivity, which may be linked to poor boundaries and negative thinking patterns and behaviors?

Highly Sensitive People, Part 1

Have you ever been told, or told someone else, "Stop being so sensitive!"  Research indicates that 15-20% of the human population is comprised of "highly sensitive" people, or HSPs.  Believe it or not, this is a real thing, and it involves a higher level of nervous system activity.  Cinthia explores how highly sensitive people tend to experience life and what can be helpful or unhelpful if you or someone you love fits into this category.