posted: Jan. 25, 2024.

Coming Eventually... This blog post as originally planned will take a while to take shape, if ever, because it feels so crucial and precarious to address, from all angles, what Read more

posted: Jan. 23, 2024.

One morning I was standing at the kitchen window after meditation/study group. The view is much less colorful than the picture of artwork accompanying this post (Twenty Seven Birds by Read more

posted: Nov. 25, 2023.

A daughter sent that to me in a text, and for better and worse, depending on the context and who you ask, it is probably true. You're paying me to arrange Read more

posted: May 21, 2023.

I am Kind Wise Healthy Fortunate Lovable and Good. Think that's a load of horseshit? I get it. I came up with that affirmation on a day I was feeling Bitter, Dumb, Unable, Unlucky, Unwanted, and Evil, and Read more

posted: Feb. 02, 2019.

***If you're feeling suicidal Dial 988***   The Journey by Mary Oliver   One day you finally knew  what you had to do, and began,  though the voices around you  kept shouting  their Read more

posted: Dec. 06, 2018.

All parents struggle to balance their normal current stressors -- friends and family, body and mind, household and job -- with their parenting responsibilities. But on top of that for Read more

posted: Oct. 09, 2018.

This November, it will be decade ago that I got my first paycheck as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Here are some things I've realized in that time through a combination Read more

posted: May 19, 2017.

Did you ever see the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know...? It's really good, so I highly recommend it. It's a 'quantum physics for dummies' deal for people like Read more

posted: May 01, 2017.

I love it when life gives me the opportunity to apply mental health strategies in my own world that I spend my days encouraging others to apply in theirs. Said Read more

posted: Feb. 16, 2017.

The pessimistic energy we give to thoughts and rants about how wrong everything is eclipses our view of the conditions for constructive change that are there and waiting - likely Read more

posted: Nov. 30, 2016.

According to trauma researcher and clinician, Bessel van der Kolk, we are all living testimonials to events that are no longer happening. Ideally, we are functional testimonials — healthy and Read more

posted: Nov. 30, 2016.

For many, holidays mark a time for family, food, warmth, conversation, celebration, and abundance. For many if not more of us, they are tinged with dissatisfaction or irritability if not Read more

posted: Feb. 26, 2016.

The plastic soap dish on my bathroom sink was gunky and driving me nuts. I kept not dealing with it. Every night I would use the little bar of soap Read more

posted: Feb. 22, 2016.

I'm imagining a spectrum of attention that ranges from a willingness to notice, to a willingness to tolerate, to a willingness to stay near or with, to a willingness to Read more

posted: Feb. 13, 2016.

Here's a multiple choice exercise for you that you won't find anywhere else. Please complete these sentences:(1) If you're thirsty, you...(a) deny you are thirsty and go watch Netflix.(b) admit Read more