Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Thanksgiving is the Start of This Intense Holiday Season Thanksgiving is in ten days, with Christmas and New Year’s just behind. This can be a very charged, intense, challenging, difficult time – and an opportunity to more greatly love – however, we cannot love who and what we aren’t, really. In charged, intense, challenging, and …
How Much Hope Do You Really Have These Days? That is the age-old saying. Is it true for you? How much hope do you have these days? Take a few minutes and journal about how you hope, or don’t, for yourself, for those nearest and dearest to you, for the community you live in, for …
Can We Bridge the Gap Between Having and Having Not to More Greatly Love? I had a dear friend who suffered from cancer since he was 15 and died tragically at age 31, who said you can truly judge a person by how he responds when life isn’t going the way he wants it to. …
We Can Overcome Oppression and Tragedy to Become Our Own Divine Self These are the words written simply in yellow capital letters on an orange clay placard that were created and given to me by an amazing women who I followed for nursing assessment and mental health counseling, when I worked as as a psychiatric …
We Can All Receive and Perform Miracles Are you desperate for a miracle? Do you believe in miracles? Have you ever experienced a miracle in your life? A Rogers and Hammerstein musical revised on Broadway several years ago, The Flower Drum Song, had as one of its songs, titled, “A Hundred Million Miracles”. All great …
Learn about my monthly ongoing women's empowerment groups Join a monthly ongoing women's spirituality group for self-healing and personal transformation. Three small groups that have been meeting monthly for years now have openings. You'll experience a powerful opportunity to meet with a loving and supportive small group of "like-minded fellow travelers" and share in deepening …
Meet, Lose, Get as the Endless Cycle of Self-Healing and Transcendence It used to be said in the heyday of making movies that all great movie scripts followed the same essential plot: “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl”. I believe, minus the culturally conditioned sexism of this directive, that we are meant …
Can You Move Beyond Betrayal? Do you feel knocked down when life lets you down? Betrayal produces tremendous stress and loss of self-esteem, as well as a deep sense of hurt. We are caught off guard when we are betrayed, and can even feel ashamed and powerless. How can we bring ourselves back up and …
The Core Stories We Live to Heal and Develop Ourselves I was talking to my son-in-law the other day about what makes the difference for us all in experiencing major life challenges: to be broken by them or be better through them. He looked at me, smiled, and said, “You know, I remember talking years …
You Can Disentangle Feelings, Especially Anger We don’t do emotions very well – still – in this culture. We attempt to tell ourselves what is acceptable and not acceptable, good and bad, regarding specific feelings. Anger for countless millennia has been tangled up with justifying violence and other abuse, passive-aggressive behavior, and attempts to dominate. …