The artist, Deb Koffman, created this installtion, “Love-Hate” exploring our internal dynamics by making them visually compelling. The installtion allows a shift in perspective which can give us different ways of experiencing the world.
A couple years ago I met Sara Willerson at a conference in Europe. It was like meeting a soul sister. Since then we’ve kept in touch about her work in equine therapy in the brave and wonderful state of Texas. To see a video of her work click here.  Here’s a blog post she [...]
  I have had the good luck to be friends with and taught by someone who is an extrodrinary yoga teacher. Thomas Amelio [Shivananda] taught me about Advaita yoga in the 1980′s. A long time monk who is now a layperson. Currently a teacher in the New York City area you can check out his site [...]
Last week Tom Ashbrooke had an intriguing conversation on his NPR radio show about the Ability to Forget Much of the conversation centered on the value of forgetting without clinging to memories which is an enormous change from the previous 100 years of psychology. This change that Dr. Mike Anderson and other cognitive neuroscientists  are [...]
 This guest blog was written by Bret Lyon who will be presenting a workshop on Healing Shame  in the Boston area May 19 & 20, 2012.  Click here for more information. Anatomy of a Freeze – or Dorsal Vagal Shutdown (Drawn from Steven Porges and Peter Levine) In order to sustain life, [...]
Alice Rosen has written here on the blog before. Click here to read her post on the Hard Heart Revisited. When it comes to eating and weight related issues I suspect that many of us think that Manager-led eating and focusing upon weight loss is the way to go. This is the epitome of the Diet Mentality. [...]
 If you haven’t had the absolute and joyous pleasure of interacting with the artist Deb Koffman I encourage you to wholeheartedly and absolutely take the plunge. Her latest book, The Magic Lamp  is short, sweet, and a guide to how to use imagination to change your life. One of the things I [...]
It’s often hard to chart the path forward into the unknown. We might not like the past — but we know how to do it. It seems easier to do what we already know to do – even when we don’t like what we’re doing or like the outcome. When we’re faced with a crossroads [...]
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin There’s something profound in accepting things as they are, not pushing for them to be different, to be changed.  There are things in life that can’t be changed.  People encounter this a lot when [...]
[Fra Giovanni Giocondo (c.1435-1515) was a Renaissance pioneer, accomplished as an architect, engineer, antiquary, archaeologist, classical scholar, and Franciscan friar. Today we remember him most for his reassuring letter to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on Christmas Eve, 1513.]  I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is [...]
