Is there a greater pressure than dealing with divorce during the holiday period? Sure, it’s a first world problem, but as Bob Anderson so rightly points out, it’s still very real and very painful for many Americans at this time.

Bob Anderson is a former College Hockey player, current Conestoga high school coach and Staszak’s former hockey coach. He is in the Conestoga Hockey Hall of Fame. He’s also Joe’s mentor and life coach, who “spews nothing but wisdom”. So very true. 

Over the past 40 years Bob Anderson has been studying the human condition and it’s relation to the individual soul and how those two forces impact and inform our lives.  “Gratitude is an attitude” as Staszak puts it, asking Bob to elucidate on how gratitude is its own reward and how learning to be grateful means accepting who you are. 

In this episode Staszak extracts so many gifts of insight from Anderson that deserve to be wrapped up and put under the Christmas tree. But they’re right here for you now to listen to and share in as we continue to bask in the glow of the holiday spirit, regardless of our current marital condition or status. 

“Gratitude is about appreciating what you might take for granted, the things you already have. People don’t really talk about the gratitude of memory. Because memory takes perspective.” - Bob Anderson

In This Episode:

- We are not the sum of our differences

- Divorce is a game of score keeping and no one wants to play

- Divorce will not resolve or cure the issues you brought with you into your marriage 

- One of the greatest gifts to give someone is memories

- With gratitude comes grace

- The greatest present is being present

- How do we not ‘check out’?

- Everything is being done to increase pleasure and reduce pain

- Having your child say, “My dad was always there”

- ‘Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.”

And so much more!

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