Ever get overwhelmed? When my Gramma would get overwhelmed with work, anger, excitement, whatever she would exclaim: “I am just beside myself!”

What she meant was that there was just too much of what she was feeling to be contained by one person. To be “beside yourself” was not a good thing.

But what if where you are starting from is not the best place to be? What if where your life stands right now is not a good place?

Maybe if you could get outside yourself if you could get out of the space your heart and spirit are inhabiting, if you could somehow “get beside yourself” instead of being stuck in the same old place, perhaps your life could be made better? Perhaps your life could be transformed?

The possibility of being “beside yourself” has gone from a quaint old saying to a new gener…