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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Addressing your anger, MLK style: A teacher was telling me the story of her student who, when learning about Martin Luther King Jr., asked her, “Even after all of the things that happened to him, why is he always smiling?” Another child asked, “Why wasn’t he angry?” Your Anger realized He was really angry and
So many people who are going through hell tell me that sometimes they feel like getting away from themselves. Escaping. “I wanted to run a way from myself, I felt so horrible,” a man recently told me. He thought he was crazy. I have felt this feeling on many occasions, and we probably all have.
When you allow yourself to feel, you allow yourself to heal… Many of us experience a situation like the loss of a friend or rejection of a lover and feel pain in our hearts. Panic sets in as we fear the painful feeling and what it might mean to our life. Soon, we begin to
Your surroundings affects you strongly. If you were living with someone who abused you or worked with someone who criticized you, for example, it would be difficult for you to be freely ourselves and find peace of mind in your space. Same goes for our physical surroundings, for example, stale air, minimal light, and clutter affect
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