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Autumn and My Mother’s Cancer
Today was a perfect autumn day, the kind that calls me out of my head and into my senses. The kind that finds me with my car windows rolled down and the music loud. The kind that makes me feel giddy...
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A Story of Heart Break and a Story for our Time
I just finished reading Rocky Braat’s blog, a young man who is devoting his life to serving poor orphaned and abandoned children stricken with aids in India I read his blog surrounded by...
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Surviving Depression: Wisdom From Gabrielle Roth and My Mother
As a therapist who walks beside others who struggle with depression, and as a woman who has endured its devastating blows myself, I’m all too aware of what overcoming it demands of us. We are...
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Discovering Meaning: Living and Loving the Good Life
I’d like to warmly and humbly share a gift with you today in honor of Father’s day. For the rest of this month you can listen to the audiobook, “Discovering Meaning,” for free! “Discovering Meaning:...
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I Love Your Story Still….
I’ve been neglecting this blog as I continue to work on my book, “Dancing in the Dark: Lessons from our Darkest Nights.” And because I still can’t seem to manage to create a new entry today, I want to...
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My Dark Ages: Years that have Shattered, Tested and Transformed Me (Part One)
The following is the first of three related blog posts. On this, the last day of 2013, I am reflecting on the past three years — years that have proven to be the most painful and challenging of my...
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My Dark Ages: Years that have Shattered, Tested and Transformed Me (Part Three)
Then my world exploded. Kristen shared a terrible secret that she’d been baring the weight of alone for far too long. When she was a child, a family member had sexually and emotionally abused her...
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Daring the Dark
Please forgive me for not writing in some time, this has been a period of deep reflection, soul searching, and exploration for me. In his book, “The House of Belonging,” Poet David Whyte wrote the...
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The Turmoil of Transformation
From my perspective, one of the wisest and most beautiful observations made about change and transformation was that of Rita Ghatourey who wrote, “The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where...
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When You Feel You Can’t Go On: An Open Letter to Someone Considering Suicide
WHEN YOU FEEL YOU CAN’T GO ON I’m sorry that you’re hurting so desperately right now. I know how painful the seconds, and minutes, and days can be, how long the nights are. I understand how very hard...
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