The concept of universal oneness is sometimes hard to wrap your brain around. We grew up with us/them, win/lose mentality. This is called dual thinking and it is the cause of so many of our problems. We feel separate from other people and this has us up to all sorts of antics: getting angry, feeling […]
Do you find it is hard to motivate yourself? If you are a highly motivated person, you don’t need to read this post. Go take a nap. If you have all kinds of excuses to get things done, read on… What is motivation? Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains
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Reposting about my Great Grandmother Frances today! It is one of my first posts from years ago when nobody read my blog! It is an excerpt of an article I published called “Therapist As Host: Making my guests feel welcome” in The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work 2006 No.3, Published by Dulwich
For Valentine’s Day I am going to give you a series of Mother Theresa Quotes–the Goddess who understood more about love than any of us. She embodied compassion and unconditionality. You can’t help but love her. Enjoy! I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the
Be a witness. This one is easy and my favorite life commitments. For some of us and at some time in our life, this world is a lonely place. There are a few choices for us bystanders to do in response to other’s pain. We gain tremendously from all of them. It does not take from
When I speak about freedom today, I am speaking about freedom from an invisible prison. The prison is a metaphor for stress. Stress is caused mostly by fear and guilt. Yes, you can say that stress is caused by someone cutting you off at an on ramp. But if you examine it closer, you have
The following is a excerpt from my new Book Understanding Pain, Anger and Fear: Michael White’s Absent But Implicit. In the context of everyday conversations, it is all too common to hear expressions of complaint, pain, frustration, worry, and/or anger. In our culture, we are quick to point out what we don’t want and what we don’t
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People from my past are still part of me. Last night, I sat waiting in a parking lot for my father to drop off my son (12) who spent the day with him watching movies and going to dinner. I arrived early and sat watching great big chunks of snowflakes falling on my windshield. The world