Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
If At First You Don’t Succeed . . . Try again – but not forever – just three times, total, to really be able to be assertive. What do I mean by that? Assertiveness is a developing skill that flies in the face of your resistive ego that only wants to keep running the same …
Failing to Be Assertive is What Fails and Loses Ourselves We’re taught not to be assertive in our world. This is the way it’s been for a very long time, certainly since we decided as humans creating societies to disempower women . . . say, beginning about 5,000 years ago. We’ve all failed and lost …
Death is the Right Partner to Greatly Live Our Lives Since my husband of 18 years died suddenly of undiagnosed coronary artery disease in 1989, I have felt death peering over my shoulder. It feels quite right as a partner in how I choose to live my life, and oddly comforting, like a missing piece …
We Choose Our Lifetimes Yes, it’s been awhile since my last blog entry. A lot has happened (what else is new?) in my life, well synchronizing with all that is happening in the world. And you????? I think it’s a safe spiritual assumption that, as I believe we choose the date, time and place of …
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How to Return to Love and Being Loved We are only capable of truly loving when we unconditionally love ourselves and all others as being part of the same divine union. On this Valentine’s Day 2009, when the world is full of peaking global crises, can we dare return to an inviolate space to love …
How do I receive the freely available Celebrating Sacred Spaces audio? All you have to do is right click on the linked file below and click the “Save As…” option. Then save the file to a familiar place on your computer (e.g., your “My Documents” file folder) Creating your sacred space mp3 Click here for …
What is Centering Tools? It’s a long developing set of tools that I’ve been honing and developing in this practice since 1987. It began as an offshoot to the women’s spirituality groups I ran part time in the late 1980s and since then I’ve developed an integrative, empowering, and self-transforming counseling and coaching practice. Self-healing …
We Must Acknowledge Global Threats It’s everywhere, in all communities, all over the country and the world, as we hear more and more about global crises with threatened environmental, financial, housing, and health care collapse, ongoing wars with no end in the foreseeable future, and severely challenged leadership. The world and its systems are profoundly …
Thinking about joining the memoir writing group? You can request more information or read “Why Norma Writes” below Why Do I Write? I asked myself the question, “Why do I write?” After much thought, I realized it is relaxing. I think I have something to say that someone might find interesting. The main reason …