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Accepting Life’s Challenges

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As I work at accepting life's challenges, I find myself in a chapter of my life where I am sifting, sorting, and reorganizing who I am. Sometimes I see the more expansive parts of myself – the parts that can hold a goal over a long period…
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The Practice of Gratitude is a Choice

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Post updated June 6th, 2020 What is the definition of gratitude? Gratitude is the emotion of being thankful. If we are thankful, we appreciate and are in connection with the thing we are grateful for. This can be something outside ourselves,…
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Creating Our New World

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We are stepping forward into a new year. I know for me, right now I am acutely aware of all of my ‘flaws’ - all of the parts of me that I wish were more evolved, more capable of being completely unafraid, less neurotic, more generous, and…
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The Gift of Dialogue

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One of the memories that has been indelibly etched within me is a fight I had with my father. I had come home from college and found our old family cat Sissy with a huge abscess on her stomach.  She was clearly very sick and going down hill…
I Trust the Universe

I trust the universe. I trust your universe. Do you?

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I was having a conversation the other day about one of my fears.  My friend told me that he not only trusted the universe, but that he also trusted MY universe. I felt myself relax immediately. How often do we think about the big picture? How…
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Sometimes Our Potential Lies in Our Wounds.

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Growing Into Strength This week I was reading some old writing I had done and ran across a piece I had written 14 years ago in 1996.  This was shortly before I went back to school to become a therapist and it made me aware of the evolution…
Psychology of Transformation

Psychology of Transformation

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The Psychology of Transformation; Mapping out the Path of Co-Creating a New Reality I have written this article for people who are in the process of transformation, and who are interested in living out of their own internal compass, rather…
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What If I Decided That My Life Is My Friend?

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As I watch people struggle in their lives (and because it is not my life I often have more perspective then they do), I sometimes see what they need to let go of. Maybe they are getting sick because it is the only way they can begin to relate…
Embracing the Present Moment

I Am In The Middle Of My Beautiful Life

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"I am in the middle of my beautiful life." I tell myself this on occasion, and it always moves me into gratitude and also opens me up to feeling. It is a way of honoring my life, with all of its complexities, flaws, joys, heartaches etc. Even…