Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
If You Could Choose Five Key Words By Which You Could Live Your Life . . . What would they be? Think about it – settle back, close your eyes, take ten full, deep, easy breaths…and then ask the question to what you imagine is a clear, core place within you. When you feel complete …
What About Death? Death is so final. It changes us, wakes us up to its nightmare with no alternative end, nothing pretty, happy, better. No wonder we run from it, put forth all our energy to deny it. It breaks us, our hearts, our souls, makes us grow up terribly and wipes the smile from …
Terror is the Great Disease and Challenge of Our Time I recently read an amazing book by Erik Larsen titled In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, about Ambassador Dodd’s personal and heroic transformation as FDR’s last choice for US ambassador in 19933 to Germany. The title …
Even Being a Hapless Victim Doesn’t Destroy Hope My youngest daughter turned 23 about a month ago, and decided to take me up on my offer to pick the play she wanted to see at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s annual Shaw Festival, deservedly acclaimed throughout North America. We have gone nearly every year to this idyllic and very …
The Only Real Solution to Conflict and Crisis The only way we solve problems, regain hope and authentic wellbeing, and better empower ourselves is when we can transcend – “get beyond” to a sense of completion and resolution. These are transcendent times that call for new insights, admittance, and unconditionally caring, compassionate, inclusive solutions. The …
The Real Meaning and Challenge of Personal Growth So much of my work, I’ve understood from the beginning, involves personal growth as the key to self-healing and empowerment. It really involves becoming greater, which is the only way to overcome challenges and stuckness – and the only way to “match” yourself with the opportunities you …
An Art, Not Just a Science So much is presented these days about the need for self-care – and no wonder! When we experience great stressors and extended responsibilities in our lives, paying central care to ourselves can centrally fly out the window. Self-care, though, is not just a science filled with concrete tasks and …
How Do Miracles Really Occur? What Are The Real Elements That Make Miracles? There have been some miracles happening in my family this year, which I’m just starting to understand and much more clearly view. I’m also feeling some synchronicity with this view and new clarity after having just finished watching Ken Burns’ excellent miniseries …
Focus on these words: Willing to be Lead Towards Your Heart to open your heart. Are You? How does it feel when you read this title? The heart is our multidimensionally operative center of being. It rules our bodies, feelings and insights. Ten Guidelines to Open Up Willing to open up (perhaps, again – after …
Love Is….. Endlessly present Healing Integrative Multidimensional Nurturing Vitalizing Peaceful Unconditionally accepting Without agenda Without expectation Transcendent Inspiring Creating anew Clarity Greatly aware Energizing Sustaining Higher power Recovering Freedom Accepting and acknowledging of what’s real Connecting and supporting the greater and expanding whole Divine Where These Elements Aren’t, Love Isn’t …and opposites exist and explode… …