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Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Our Unhealed Past Forces Us to Become the Victims of Our Lives We cannot shake the past – it is part of who and what we are – and yet life conspires, I think, to inspire and even force us to always transcend and transform it. When we can’t complete the past we have no …
Below are a series of links for recent television and audio interviews. The video interview focus on a recently published book on journaling. Video Part 1 Video Part 2 The program starts about 60 seconds into the audio recording. In the interview we explore a number of topics around centering. Through the Keyhole – Audio …
You Can Profoundly Support Self-Healing Through Journaling Take pen to paper, and start writing. Writing your thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears, dreams, life record – any and all of the above – has been said to be the single act we can take to transform our lives. Research shows that journaling promotes healing on all levels. …
As this new year now begins to fully unfold, I want to share with you my three short, transformational steps in the order in which they are listed below to clear, empower and uplift yourself to work with the universe to create the life you choose. To experience the fully developing effects throughout your life, …
Can You “Dispose Of” Holiday Stressors to Better “Wrap Up” this Year? How can we possibly come to a “peaceful end” this time of year with all the hoopla of Christmas and other major holidays that bring their own additional stressors; and then restore and support greater balance within ourselves to feel ready to start …
How To Best Take Stock at Year’s End “And they said it couldn’t be done . . .” As this year fast draws to an end, it is natural to think of how to best “wrap it up” in order to be able to be truly present in the new year. Maybe that’s why this …
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 …
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. …
The First Order of Business is to Admit Times Have Changed and It’s All Beyond You for the Moment It has been a while, sadly, since I have seen my way clear to once again writing blog entries. I have been overseas half the month of May. More significantly, since the first of the year …
How can you appreciate the present moment if you've been betrayed and haven't dealt with it? Have you ever experienced betrayal in your life that hurts you so badly you can't get past it? Again and again in my work with clients I hear stories about significant betrayal that continue to terribly impact them, getting …