Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
How is to Become a Being of Presence? Meditation has been called a mindfulness practice. I was recently asked what that means, and how we can most easily adapt this ancient art of presence, as I call it, for greatest benefits to better be in the world today. I first found myself considering what I …
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
How to Become Empowered in the New Year Have you ever felt Like a victim? What happens inside you when you feel this way? I do a lot of central work in my practice with uncovering feeling like a victim and being able to transcend that sensation to feeling empowered. Here is a guide to …
Thanksgiving is the Start of This Intense Holiday Season Thanksgiving is in ten days, with Christmas and New Year’s just behind. This can be a very charged, intense, challenging, difficult time – and an opportunity to more greatly love – however, we cannot love who and what we aren’t, really. In charged, intense, challenging, and …
Can We Bridge the Gap Between Having and Having Not to More Greatly Love? I had a dear friend who suffered from cancer since he was 15 and died tragically at age 31, who said you can truly judge a person by how he responds when life isn’t going the way he wants it to. …
We Can Overcome Oppression and Tragedy to Become Our Own Divine Self These are the words written simply in yellow capital letters on an orange clay placard that were created and given to me by an amazing women who I followed for nursing assessment and mental health counseling, when I worked as as a psychiatric …
Is It Possible to Heal Broken Relationships? Who among us has not experienced broken relationships? How can we heal from what has been broken? Here are my top ten tips to allow, create and experience miracles on many surprising levels from broken relationships. They are designed to be progressive meditative and journaling exercises for multidimensional …
We Run from Despair, But Can Never Really Get Away from It Have you ever experienced real despair in your life? I have, more than I would have ever thought or expected I would experience or withstand. Many say these are despairing times; and now more than ever, it seems, a lot of the clients …
The Only Thing Within Us That Stops and Threatens Us Fear is the most basic and challenging reactive emotion we possess. It centrally stimulates the "flight-fight" response, which throws us into being singularly tied to whatever self-determined threat to our survival we perceive, creating overwhelming stress and "dis-ease" in our lives. I think fear is the …
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 …