Life Transitions

There’s a song I’ve sung to both my children called “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. It’s the story of this brave quest to find a bear – perhaps you can view the bear hunt as a metaphor in this case for enlightenment or some other spiritual goal.

In this preschool song there are MANY different obstacles on the path to this “bear”: swirling snowstorms, gooey mud, deep dark forests. Let’s say that each of these obstacles are the aspects of life that we feel threatened by, such as our wounds, our e…

From the perspective of The Loveliness…

Before children are born into the world, their parents have made a spiritual agreement with them. We agree to come together as parent and child, and provide the experiences that we each seek to have in this lifetime. Often it’s a new experience we are each seeking. Perhaps it’s the first time we have been a parent (on Earth) for example, and we know it could be especially challenging. Before making their trip to incarnation, your child also has certai…

One of the most fascinating and ultimately comforting things about being a therapist is the ongoing “proof” I get that we are all truly connected. 

I witness this sea of togetherness in THEMES.

Most of the time, it becomes obvious that there is a theme of the week - an issue that many of my clients and even I am dealing with AT THE SAME TIME.

The theme this week is DISCOMBOBULATION

 {Fun word - but not a fun state of being}

and, How did it “show up” this week in the therapy room?

It s…

My friend is going through a “course correction”, disguised as loss.

My dear friend Dan has been going through an agonizing breakup. For the first weeks he just sobbed and pleaded in all directions for it to not be so. 

My heart ached for him. I wished I could lift him out of his pain. 

But deep change, the metamorphic type, is painful. Think of what the butterfly and ladybug go through to become airborne. It’s a mysterious and powerful spiritual experience of thorough transformation.…