Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
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 …
You Can “Unplug” Yourself and Restore Your Sanity Have you ever thought about why and how the world speeded up over these past several decades? We work harder, longer, and are less likely to separate ourselves – ever – from our technological “attachments”. Studies strongly indicate prolonged computer time in and of itself creates an …
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 …
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 …
Stress Damages and Wounds Us It has been said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. However, decades of body-mind research tell us that stress profoundly interferes with physiological, mental, emotional and spiritual functions; and can, in fact, kill us. The stress response was extensively researched by Dr. Hans Selye in the nineteen-fifties. He …
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 …
We continue to live in intense, complicated, high-pressure times. These current challenging dimensions thrust and move us to a different set of requirements to be able to live and best respond to what life offers, fully present. It is one thing to be fully present when “life is a breeze” – something else when it …
Letting go is an essential to recovery! Learn how to take advantage of an integrative healing approach to letting go.
Here is my “cut to the chase” list that my life has brought me to know and access, as the foundation by which I understand and respond in my life as I move ever-so-rapidly toward my 60th birthday. I am moved in these intense, accelerated times to offer it as my summer gift to you …