Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
The Particular Global Challenge This Week to Celebrate the Earth’s – and Human's – Renewal Spring is literally around the corner. After the horrific global week that is mercifully ending so terribly with no resolution in sight, it feels like a tremendous challenge to allow ourselves to experience the unfolding, beautiful dream and miracle that …
All codependency and recovery treatments warn against the fruitless perils incurred when we try to “fix” anyone else, or even especially ourselves, as a way to demand solutions to problems. The Hindu religion says that we incur the worst kind of karma when we try to “make” someone do what we think they should do …
Prayer Strengthens and Supports Miraculous Survival The older I get, the more I believe in it. To me prayer is a verbal and heartfelt transmission to one’s personal understanding of the divine. When I heard about the horrific earthquake and tsunami in Japan last Friday followed by aftershocks that continue as we speak, I both …
Fear Gets in Our Way In our culture we may be told our mothers say this to us to soothe us and take away our fear. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to have mothers tell us this – mine did, and it helped – but really didn’t work. Fear does get in the way of being …
Know Your Real Source of Abundance and Security The magical word to achieve this switch is very old – its called alchemy. When we come to understand what is really holding us down and back we are fundamentally challenged to transform it into its opposite – that which lifts us up and thrust us greatly …
Find the Ancient Spiritual Roots of Aggression to Separate Out Violation From Being More Able to Accomplish the Greater Good Aggression is a most misunderstood word and practiced behavior. It is associated with violation and other acting-out responses. However, in ancient spiritual practices aggression was understood to be a necessary dimension of key focus to …
Relationships That Don’t Work Produce Destructive Results Much of what moves people to seek my counseling services is feeling stuck and powerless to know how to deal with successfully challenging relationships. Relationships can “get off track” for many reasons, all of which have to do with unacknowledged fears and wrongly assuming the only choice of …
***We exist in a great sacred circle, and in order to recover, empower and develop ourselves, we need to become our own light centers. ***In this transformational workshop you will understand, experience and create your own sacred mandalas and medicine wheels as they have existed since ancient times. ***These become your key tools to experience …
We Can Only Solve Problems Through Finding the Real Resources for Resolution As we get older, it seems we become more and more challenged by life’ problems. The challenges of making it in an unsteady world with longstanding and newly-developing relationship dysfunction, compounded work requirements, and a sense of not being able to “keep one’s …
Our Key to Self-Recovery is the World’s Key to Survival So much is said in so many different contexts about our Higher Self. In addictions’ recovery programs, being able to access your higher self is the fundamental path to healing and development. Is this simply our key to self-recovery? Throughout all spiritual practices back to …