My darling, sweet Topaz continues to teach me so much about myself. The latest topic: boundaries. How much wiggle room will I allow him before enforcing boundaries? It made me veer outside of puppy training and look at what boundaries I enforce in my human relationships, too. How much justifying do I do (i.e. he’s…

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The word discipline comes from the Latin root discipulus, a learner. Disciple, one who learns from a master teacher, comes from the same root. If we thought of self-discipline as Self-discipline, the true meaning would be  “to learn from our Higher Self.” Too often we think of self-discipline as cracking the whip to make ourselves…

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