Crediting Your Emotional Bank Account: How Words are Critical to Our Well Being | March 9, 2010

By Margery Pabst Margery Pabst is the co-author of Enrich Your Caregiving Journey (Expert Publishing, February 2009) and is a national speaker and facilitator. Learn more about Margery and her book at www.pivotalcrossings.com. Our use of language has a critical effect on our emotional lives. We can credit our emotional bank accounts with positive words about ourselves and others, or we can think and talk in negatives that tarnish our present life and diminish our future. Roger Rosenblatt says, "Write with grace rather than pain". For those who aren’t writers, these words can easily be applied to how we speak and think. "Speak and think with grace rather than pain" is a mantra to consider when caregiving. ‘Grace’ suggests...