As I reflect on this holiday season, I realize that many of us will face the loss of loved ones, our jobs, or our homes. We might feel sad or guilty that we won't have the financial means to give the gifts that we assume are expected from us this year. Read on for some ways to share spiritual gifts that are “the best and most beautiful things in the world .”
Read moreOn the Balance of Time
The process of living life fully is the same for everyone. We continue to learn and grow through our mistakes. We move forward despite our fear of the unknown, taking comfort in what we do know and in our past triumphs.
Read moreA Handwritten Note For You . . . On Handwriting
A robot written card does NOT give a card a personal touch. It gives it a cold, heartless, metallic touch. And that touch becomes their touch. It becomes a reflection of who they are because they made that choice.
Read moreGiving Thanks to the Heroes and Heroines Who Shape and Guide Us
In what way can you embody the heroes and heroines who inspire you? How have you lived your life to honor them? Find your light, acknowledge it, and give thanks for life, especially your life. Thank you for being you.
Read moreBelieving in Your Dreams and Investing in Yourself
Your dreams can reflect a basic part of who you are before you become that in the world. In other words, a blueprint for your future self. It is in our nature as creators to create ever-evolving states of being.
Read moreAt the Airport: Signs of a Changing America
Let's call out the culture of division and disenfranchisement gradually increasing around us. Ostracizing one group to create fake unity for another was, and continues to be, a failed social experiment.
Read moreReturning to Life-affirming Moments in Childhood
Our childhoods aren't just bags of traumas that we fish around in, pull out an issue, and talk about in therapy. Rather, our childhood can tell us a great deal about our innocence and pure-heartedness, who we are deep inside, and how we wanted to evolve.
Read moreThe Little Red Hen's Lesson on Love
Though we may try to capture it through writing, music, or speech, love’s spiritual essence cannot be reduced to three or two-dimensional space. Love is not just a verb; it is a multi-actioned-verb.
Read moreTo Deserve or Not to Deserve, That is the Question
What stands between you and everything you want in life? Is it something external to you? Your relationships? Your job? Your health? Or is it something within you that you can't easily point to?
Read moreHealing Sexual Relationships in Two Sessions or Less!
I would never have anticipated that anyone would ask me to help them heal their sexual problems. But in the process of helping these patients, I discovered that energy medicine has an amazing ability to help resolve serious issues.
Read moreHow can holes help us rise?
Though I don't know if my conversations were with God, my "higher self," or just a part of my imagination, I did feel information flowing through me from a source beyond my conscious awareness.
Read morePeople Are Lovable Close-Up. Gain Insight.
By getting to know my patients close up, I continue to polish off many sharp judgments and prejudices I gathered from past experiences: like a rock bouncing along and getting smoother along the way.
Read moreObtaining Your Heart's Desire and the Meaning of Cinderella's Glass Slipper
Too often we believe that if the circumstances and the person were perfect, true love would occur. But no, true love actually begins when we have the courage to remain authentic to who we truly are.
Read moreWhat is "Life Energy" and how does it work?
It doesn't matter what you call this energy. What is important is that your mind is dialed to the right channel.
Read moreTop Three Ways to Transform Hardships into Advantages
Between the hardship and its outcomes lay our choices. What kinds of choices maximize our ability to transform hardships into advantages?
Read moreThe Trip: Finding my way back home
The strange flow of love, like water in a river, can be blocked by unspoken hurt and anger. When we can remove that dam, with a sincere apology, love flows once more.
Read moreMotherhood: Constant Entertainment
Since this update comes just two days after celebrating Mother’s Day, I want to share some reflections on my attitude towards motherhood and a poem I wrote about my daughter, Sara.
Read morePerfection's Hiding Place
April is poetry month, which is as good an excuse as any to share a poem I wrote called "Chipped China Cup" and some thoughts I have about it. I love poems because they concentrate truth, bare emotion, and support insight.
Read moreFrom Understanding to Compassion
In order to be a holistic psychiatrist, I had to walk in my patients' shoes. I needed the power, insight, and determination that only compassion could provide.
Read moreThe Many Faces and Phases of Love
Sharing some personal stories about love for Valentine's Day.
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