Looking at my calendar this morning, I realized that my therapy career will come to a close exactly three months from today. And on that day, I will step away from a core component of my life for the past thirty-nine years. It all seems so surreal to me. First, I never thought I would …
It’s ironic to me that therapists work so diligently with their clients to honor and embrace themselves. And yet, like the rest of the planet we experience self-abandonment. I observe it in my clients who are therapists. I observe it in the therapists with whom I clinically consult. I observe it in me. How do …
Worthiness. It is such a tricky concept in our society. Athletes. Celebrities. Well known activists that work on behalf of the poor or climate change. We might be tempted to assign them a level of worthiness based on their achievements. Worthiness is one of those things that morphs into social comparison. That person has or …
Many of my dear readers know that I facilitate a therapy group named Live Brave. Every other Wednesday evening, this band of brave souls gather together to explore what it means to live a brave and authentic life. This past week, we dug into what it means to belong versus what it means to fit …
My dear readers, I have written many times in many venues about the issue of hope. And my take on hope has been fairly consistent. I’m not a big fan, especially when it comes to cancer. I have so little control over what cancer does in my body, so I feel I do not have …
March 15, 2020 was the first day the COVID-19 virus had been detected in my community. My life dramatically changed directions that day. I saw my clients only through telehealth and eventually closed my brick and mortar office. I stopped worshipping in person with my faith community. I stopped feeding the hungry and homeless. Family …
It started with a simple text on Friday night telling me that Mark had died unexpectedly earlier that day. I was stunned, as though I could not catch my breath for a bit. I was in disbelief. And then, I was stunned again. I had communicated with him less than 48 hours before this. The …
Scrolling through Instagram, my eyes stopped at this quote, “Don’t live the same year seventy five times and call it a life.” Then my heart stopped. And my breath. Wow, that resonated with me. As many of my readers know, I recently closed my therapy office and will only be doing therapy virtually. This loss …
This is such a challenging season in our personal lives and in the life of this country. We are living in a time where a virus has turned our lives upside down. People are struggling with their health, the illness or death of a loved one, the loss of employment, or the loss of relationships …
I have been silent, missing in action so to speak, for the past six months from my blog. I made a deliberate decision six months ago to stop writing and focus on my own health. Well, actually my body made a deliberate decision. My medical care for the past six months has demanded my full …
