What does love mean to someone who has been abused mentally, physically and/or emotionally? The words from Tina Turner’s song come to mind. A shared characteristic of humanity, no matter what gender you are, what color your skin is, where you live or were born, is that we want to love and be loved. There […]

My last post focused on Loneliness. It started by guessing what % of humanity both dealt with or is currently dealing with loneliness. I begin this post with a similar guess. First, I am defining “hardship” in this case to refer to chronic situations where a person in large part, struggles or endures a challenging circumstance that […]

A brief recap before delving into Internalized Values. We are who we are today as a result of many factors. A lot of our makeup comes from “nurture & nature”. Nature refers to our genetics and Nurture refers to our experiences. Our family of origin (particularly our parents), school, what we are continually exposed to […]

Welcome to Discovering Michael – a site devoted to helping others overcome the struggles and issues they currently face. My work here is beginning to turn a dream, my life’s purpose, into a reality. Inspired by countless others whose work relates to service to humankind, this is my personal endeavor to provide hope, inspiration and guidance […]