For those of you who have difficulty with pain and would like some help with it, Maggie Phillips, one of the premier therapists working with chronic pain, is doing an online group — starting this week! Which is why I’m posting this blog now. I wanted to let you all know. Plus the price is [...]
We’re Lucky to Have People Like You Around Us
Evelyn Gladu, a therapist in Arlington, MA sent out a note today on compassion. I loved that she’s taking this stance and asked her if it would be okay to reprint her note on the blog. I’m grateful she’s suggesting this action, inviting more compassion into our world. If after reading it you feel moved [...]
Grateful for the Courage It Takes
I thought I would begin this Gratitude Practice with taking a moment to be grateful. As I sat with my clients these past few days I am softened by what it takes, the courage it takes to keep opening our hearts after a lifetime of small and large rejections, of the betrayals and hurts. I’m [...]
Gratitude Practice
How lucky we are to live in a time when there is so much information inviting us into possibility. We don’t have to deal with our heavy hearts alone. There are ways that we can shift the suffering. As the Buddha told us so many years ago, there is a way out of suffering. [...]
Brain Frontiers
You know those times when you’re just flipping through the channels and stumble on something really good? Well, I just did. PBS was airing “Brain Frontiers” and it was fantastic. Neuroplasticity was the common thread between subjects of brain injury, PTSD, and aging. Hope was visible as person after person was shown shifting, changing, emerging [...]
Split Screen
One of the best things about the Working With Parts Teleseminar Series is how much I am reminded of helpful tools. So far we’ve had the good fortune of hearing from: Fran Grossman and her Relational Model of parts Janina Fisher speaking about Structural Dissociation and how she uses the model to work with parts Claire [...]
Inspiration Experiment
This isn’t, of course, to downplay our need to be deeply heard and witnessed in what hurts. But perhaps if we balance what hurts with what is meaningful and inspirational, perhaps then we’ll have some room to breathe. As usual, you know I love hearing your stories. I’d love to read your [...]
Empathy and Attunement at a Car Mechanic Shop
Yesterday, my colleague Carol Goldman, LICSW sent out an email to all of us who were at an Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples workshop. We all got into this wonderful place of resonance. Carol’s way of being shines through in this interaction. It’s beautiful and I asked her permission to share it with you. Here [...]
Yoga Inspiration
One of the people I knew when I lived at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health was Marilyn Gilmore who is now involved in spreading the benefits of yoga through a non-profit she helped set up in Missouri. Marilyn is in her 70′s and is a total inspiration for me. I hope you enjoy the article. http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100417/LIFE07/4170301/1004/life
Another Great Addition to the Parts Teleseminar: Judith Stone / Voice Dialogue
I couldn’t resist these gorgeous creatures this morning, opening widely into the warmth of a spring day. They reminded me of little hungry birds waiting for mom to deliver nourishment. As the mind does, it scampered on to how our parts inside are hungry, no longer waiting, wanting to be heard, to be cared about. [...]