Clearing

The blues went away when I began to honor my long-postponed dream/desire/obsession with going back to school to finish an interrupted bachelor’s degree. Thirty some years later I enrolled [...]

“One day a client oozed into my office, slumped into a chair, and said she was depressed—only she said it so slowly that I thought she said “deep rest.” In a way, this was [...]

What I really want to know is: Are you happy? I came upon two articles recently that got my attention. Maureen Dowd reported in her New York Times Op-Ed piece Blue Is the New Black that [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]

No matter how bad things may seem sometimes, it’s good to be reminded that the ride is a choice for the most part. And worth it. At least that’s what the Law of Attraction folks say. [...]

Letting go. Those two words again. Our daughter. Only child. College. 2,000 miles away. At times this transition feels really huge. When I think there’s no more withdrawal, I’ll hear [...]

“I had no idea that lots of things housed in a tiny space could result in space feeling clear.”–sbv I received an email query from a friend the other day, who, like me, is sending her [...]

Sometimes life delivers a perfect storm of disasters that are so bad they’re funny. It’s almost like the Universe is doing a koochie-koo to get us to take ourselves less seriously. My [...]

It seems that many good books these days are made into a movie. At four minutes long maybe my movie isn’t Hollywood or Sundance material, but it does have a soundtrack and it is designed to [...]

Spacious. I love that it begins with the letters “Spa”…as in where you go to feel good. Main Entry: spa·cious Pronunciation: ˈspā-shəs Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, [...]