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
A client told me about these Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz so I looked them up. I love the simplicity of them. Years later I was in a movie with him. “Don Miguel Ruiz’s book, The Four Agreements was published in 1997. For many, The Four Agreements is a life-changing book, whose ideas come
“Friends are never truly lost. Sometimes they ebb and flow into and from our lives, however, never lost.” Evelyn Prieto I wanted to share with you all a recent tender moment in counseling. My client a young, beautiful woman was telling me a story of how she learned that “nothing was permanent” after losing
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This post about the benefits of yoga is by Rachel from the Capricious Yogi. When Jodi asked me to write an article about the benefits of yoga, I thought…”sure, that’s easy, no problem!” But as I started to consider what I wanted to say, I found myself flooded with reasons why someone should begin a yoga
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