Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
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 …
Not Trusting Keeps Us in a Trap of Perpetual Inner Stress We live in a world that carries many longstanding belief systems that tell us we can't afford to easily, or even fundamentally at all, trust. When we lose our ability to trust we come to terribly and helplessly understand the interrelated and devastating results …
What Condemns You to an Inner "Dead Zone" Core fear frustrates and freezes us in stuck, static, and constantly stirred-up positions that unfortunately lead us nowhere. These form false limits that can keep us in our own self-created dead zone for indefinite periods of time. How can we push past what so tragically and stupidly limits …
Power Struggles Destroy Individuals and Relationships Have you ever felt trapped in a power struggle with anyone? It feels so frustrating and helpless, with no way out – the more the struggle, the more trapped we feel. Power struggles shatter self-esteem, shut down creative problem-solving, and destroy love and trust. All power struggles twist people into …
What If The Bottom Falls Out What do you do when life is truly, hugely overwhelming and you really know, in your heart of hearts, you can't do anything that will make any kind of difference to well handle things? What do you do when you experience several major crises at once and it looks …
Here's another exercise for you to do to let yourself unfold this Thanksgiving. Loading… See what others are grateful for and what they sometimes forget to be grateful for http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t6uhxzQWOBlaNd4C2Zn9S9g&output=html
Bridging from One Intense Year to A Call for Right Direction Happy New Year! The holidays seem to have whizzed by like a hurricane, albeit happily – a wonderful one. They offered, beyond the presents and extended celebrations, groundbreaking family news about my oldest daughter expecting twins next summer, recovery on other fronts from acute …
In the spirit of this holiday season, I wanted to post this wonderful poemby another member of my monthly memoir writing group, completed in responseto my recommendation from the previous class to write a poem describing aninner journey to one’s heart. Happy Equinox, spring (where is it?), Easter,Passover . . . and beyond . . …
I’m happy to share with you all one of the pieces a client wrote in my senior memoir writing class. I anticipate you’ll all enjoy this as much as I did. ———————————————————– One Chapter At A Time Life is like a book. You live it one chapter at a time. At present, I am living …
Self-help tips I either use or recommend a client to use, in no particular order: Staying Centered, in ten tips Count to 10 while you breathe deeply—each breath counts as 1. Close your eyes and see if you can sense your inner center. Take 5 minutes and complete the following sentence: “Right now I feel…”. …