Yes, you have a story to tell! You know this story very well and all the minute details, because it is your story! You know, your life! Maybe you have never considered that your life history is interesting, but trust me it is! I have never met a human being that does not have their …
I have been shocked and disturbed by the degree of vile hate fueled diatribes spewed daily in social media during the American presidential campaign of 2016. Thank God, this election will soon be over, but fearful that the need for mob propagated hatred and revenge will continue. Tolerance is a key component towards harmony within …
Approaching trauma anniversaries are never easy to deal with for many of us. Traumatic events are systematically recorded in our psyches, either consciously or unconsciously. They have their own calendar and are usually pretty accurate in causing underlying distress preceding the anniversary of the event. Obviously, the conscious memories are the most painful , because …
For those of you who have not gotten it, nor who have not gotten where you want to be, and are tired and weary and want to give up, this post on perseverance is for you! Hang on, for you are already in the process of investing in those pay offs and rewards just …
After a bucolic weekend in the vineyards of Burgundy, I came home to immense sadness around the slaughter of many innocents in Orlando, two young French policeman, parents of two, and the female English politician and mother of two. These represent the utmost extreme forms of hatred, prejudice, and violence, but lesser ones, such as …
Hope, acceptance and powerlessness can be miracles that can transform and regenerate your life. Hope can be very difficult to hold onto, especially when life throws you in a valley of deep depression, or any painful circumstance that living this life can entail. Acceptance is likewise extremely difficult to come to terms with if you …
Being this is Easter week and Passover will be next month; both rich in symbolism and religious connotation, I wanted to highlight another theme along mental heath lines. Regardless of our faith, it is the season of liberation and rebirth. From despair to hope eternal, and from darkness into light. We are all familiar …
I am in mourning and sorrow for all victims of this evil incarnate that rained upon this beautiful city. I would like to ask you to light a candle and place it in your window as many Parisians are doing in remembrance of those whose lives were lost and the many still struggling to survive …
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How many times have some of you lamented with much grief and sorrow that someone you loved never returned your affection. Left with only with a broken heart and bitter crumbs from a failed relationship, you limp through life seeking the “why” of it all. I want to tell you that what your weeping eyes …
There I was in front of a neatly stacked pyramid of coconuts. Parts of them appeared to have been sprinkled with turmeric water and there were tiny yellow chrysanthemums tucked here and there. Behind me was a small altar, carefully arranged with offerings of rice, lemons and bananas with incense burning and more coconuts awaiting Lord …
From time to time, I will see in my therapy room people who have little notion of who they really are. By that I mean they have never differentiated into their real selves, nor even started individuation. What is the real self, you might ask? In a nutshell, it is an integration of your very …
Each day is a reminder that you are never alone with your pain, fears, needs or suffering. Just looking around the world at any given time and you will find others in your same sorrowful predicament. Everyday there are thousands of those in mourning for loved ones and friends who were lost, due to sickness, …