Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling since 1987
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
What are the Real Benefits of Creative Coloring? Throughout my practice I have offered and encouraged clients to draw with crayons in their meditative journeys for healing and transforming; and to creatively record their inner “dives” and heart’s visions. I am beyond delighted that “adult coloring” has exploded as a most sought-after way to de-stress, …
Separating the Authentic Vision from the Hype So much is written about finding your purpose. You can take a course in it, carry out someone else’s directives, and spend lots of time fundamentally obsessing about “what is my true purpose????”… Lots of clients ask me about this. Beyond the ongoing hype, it is a question …
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 …
Sign Up Details, Description at Lily Dale “Season of Reflection” Join me in Lily Dale Retreat Center near Chautauqua, NY where I will be presenting a half day workshop retreat as part of their summer series, “Season of Reflection”: Date: July 28, 2015 Time: 9 am-noon Cost: $45 Location: Lyceum Building, 2 East St., Lily …
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 …
Experience the Transformational Power of Shamanic Journeying Saturday, June 27 from 1-4pm Fee: $30.00 Register online via the Lightways Journeys 2015 event calendar Lightways Garden Room and Native America Medicine Wheel Located at 228 Gilmore Road Brockport, NY 14420 Shamanism is the most ancient spiritual healing and development practice we know. Recent decades of archaeological …
The Real Dangers of Prolonged Hopelessness It is the real core killer. It opens the door to addiction and perpetuates it. It sacrifices and separates us from our spirit. Without hope we are truly at risk to not long survive. What Is It, Really? Hopelessness is simply a feeling, a signal, and a sensation, and …
My Absence Me, for one. I have been absent from blogging and sending out Centering Tools email newsletters throughout the holiday season. The reason why I’ve been so absent involves the final, precipitous and untimely absence of my beloved oldest child Anna, who died December 26 at 37 from still-unknown causes after a heartbreaking and …