Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Happiness Depends on “No-Thing” I grew up in the fifties when everyone was given a whole dictated laundry list of what happiness depended on that included earning a certain amount of guaranteed money, having a certain kind of job “for life”, marrying “the right” person who would well support his wife, having children who grew …
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 …
Find the Ancient Spiritual Roots of Aggression to Separate Out Violation From Being More Able to Accomplish the Greater Good Aggression is a most misunderstood word and practiced behavior. It is associated with violation and other acting-out responses. However, in ancient spiritual practices aggression was understood to be a necessary dimension of key focus to …
Relationships That Don’t Work Produce Destructive Results Much of what moves people to seek my counseling services is feeling stuck and powerless to know how to deal with successfully challenging relationships. Relationships can “get off track” for many reasons, all of which have to do with unacknowledged fears and wrongly assuming the only choice of …
***We exist in a great sacred circle, and in order to recover, empower and develop ourselves, we need to become our own light centers. ***In this transformational workshop you will understand, experience and create your own sacred mandalas and medicine wheels as they have existed since ancient times. ***These become your key tools to experience …
Our Key to Self-Recovery is the World’s Key to Survival So much is said in so many different contexts about our Higher Self. In addictions’ recovery programs, being able to access your higher self is the fundamental path to healing and development. Is this simply our key to self-recovery? Throughout all spiritual practices back to …
How Does the Meaning of February Holidays Bring Us to Our Own Self-Healing and Transformation? Valentine’s Day has rolled around again. I find it most enlightening to note which months holidays fall, particularly in view of ancient history; and see how the timing and the combined meaning can offer us greater opportunities for self-healing and …