Do you know the price you pay when you can't do enough? When you don't measure up? When you give more than you get? The power of emotional debt is a part of our culture, our lives, our relationships with others, and even our relationship with ourselves.

In "I Owe You, You Owe Me," author and life coach Nick LeForce defines emotional debt as a sense of owing or being owed in relationships or in life. Unresolved emotional debt can wreck your relationships, ruin your health, control your life, and cause endless suffering. When your obligations become burdens and your entitlements become...

This collection of poems by the Nick LeForce, the Transformational Poet, comes with a warning: Never ask a poet for advice unless you are willing to tolerate ambiguity because a poet speaks in more than meaning, wraps words in rhythms, sounds in sensations; giving you, instead, a message in a bottle tossed in the sea from a distant shore, written in a code you must crack and filled with the fragments of a map that may just lead you to the treasure your heart most desires. (Excerpt from "Message in a Bottle") And it does deliver a map by dividing the poems into four sections-Living, Losing,...

"Just be yourself." This advice, given when someone is facing a challenge or opportunity, advocating that our natural self will win the day, is certainly a vote of confidence, but it is also nearly always useless. The counsel is too vague to be useful. It neither tells us what to do or how to be in order to "be yourself." It implies that this magical accomplishment, just be yourself, should be easy and effortless and, in fact, the most naturalthing we could do. The problem is that our "natural self" is a mixed bag at best, a blend of empowering and limiting beliefs and experiences and a messy...

This is the 2nd Edition of I Owe You, You Owe Me, which contains updated material and an addendum describing the techniques for transforming resentment into forgiveness and guilt into integrity. Do you know the price you pay when you can't do enough? When you don't measure up? When you give more than you get? The power of emotional debt is a part of our culture, our lives, our relationships with others, and even our relationship with ourselves. In I Owe You, You Owe Me, author and life coach Nick LeForce defines emotional debt as a sense of owing or being owed in relationships or in life....