Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
One of the biggest challenges we face as humans is an inability to wade through difficult times. We let stress and anxiety pull us down. I know the feeling all to well. For years of my own life I allowed stress to take over. It had a negative impact on my personal health, work, relationships, …
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 …
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 …
Stress Can Be A Killer According to Hans Selye in his ground-breaking book, Stress and Distress, first published in the fifties, when we experience stress, we immediately go into “flight or fight”. In other words, when we experience stress, we label that as a threat, and our “knee jerk” response is to jump to either …
Can We Simply and Profoundly Offset the Killing Effects of Stress in Our Lives? Many times when I talk with clients who are very stressed and compromised in centering themselves (and for many compelling reasons!) about practicing relaxation and deep breathing exercises, they tell me they have tried it and it is too hard, they …
These are the principles I’ve developed and use as guidelines in my practice for inner child work as way to find and open our fundamental path toward emotional healing