We have all been under a lot of stress over recent months. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, rioting and looting and the upcoming elections, many of us feel like our lives have Read more…
When I was in high school, guidance counselors administered aptitude tests to help me figure out what I was good at. A wise teacher took me aside and warned that I would likely be good Read more…
According to the Polynesian Huna mysticism of ancient Hawaii, everything and everyone is connected to every other thing and person. Whether you call these connections “relationships,” or “attractions,” or “gravity,” or ‘love,” or even the Read more…
The right to be treated as a person and not as a pawn or possession. The right to get emotional support from both parents. The right to spend time with each parent. The right to Read more…
Do not talk badly about my other parent. (This makes me feel guilty, shameful and torn apart. It makes me not trust you and not like myself). Do not talk about my other parent’s friends Read more…
In her classic book On Death and Dying (1969), Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified five emotions experienced by persons experiencing grief. Later in her life, Kübler-Ross noted that these are not a linear and predictable Read more…
We Are All “Two-Minded” I like to compare the mind to an iceberg. The rational mind is the 20% or so that is visible above the surface, while the emotional mind is the much larger Read more…