Do you get sad when the weather is not what you want?

It’s raining here in the Midwestern portion of the United States. The season is autumn. We all get rain. The question is — does it have a negative impact upon your mood? If yes, why is that? This life experience is filled with a variety, a wide and rich variety of visceral, sensual stimulus for

How to improve your relationship—with yourself and with others

Our mothers told us that we couldn’t possibly love another until we first learned to love our self. They did all sorts of things to help us learn that lesson. If it wasn’t your mother telling you, it was somebody wise and older and they were correct. How are you going to attract the person
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How to build a loving, romantic relationship

It is the relationships that we have in this life experience that give it true value and depth–not cash, not cars, not fabulous vacations. Each of those are fabulous, we all enjoy them but they leave us empty if there is no one with whom to share them. So how is it that you find

How Erik Erikson can be of help to you

He was a world famous psychologist. He was an expert in human development and he spent a great deal of time watching children, loving them, being curious about how they developed their skills. He put both his mind and his heart into developing his theories about the life cycle, he saw it unfold in stages.

When the dentist drills down–and finds something else!

There are certain career choices that are known to be highly stressful for the professional. Two such careers are that of dentists and psychiatrists. We can each envision why. However, I was mistaken about why one particular dentist chose to leave the profession and now wants to speak to her former colleagues about they deep

My journey up the mountain

Several years ago, I was invited to book a massage appointment with someone described to me as a yoga teacher from Tibet. I made the appointment and didn’t know much other than this was a Tibetan monk and that the experience would be just that – an experience. It was. A man of small physical

A beautiful airport experience–really?

Yes. Flights get me where it is that I need to be–sometimes at a moment’s notice given who my clients are and the various types of work that I do. And yes, there have been times in my life when I felt a certain sort of dread in anticipation of flying–but I had a very

When we lose a beloved talent like Robin Williams

News travels fast and the words and the images shared enter into our minds and penetrate our hearts. To hear that our talented and treasured Robin Williams had died by his own hand took our collective breath and prompted a gasp, followed by shock and many tears. And this is as it should be, for

Confessing….

And so my mother was a raised as a Catholic, a very reasonable one. Not extreme, never harsh, and did not enroll me in the Catholic school system. She had another set of ideas about what would be helpful in my educational training. Thank you, mom. Public and private schools have been my path, fabulous
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Life tells us what to do in every moment

Do you believe this? I used to think this was sort of a ridiculous idea–but not for very long. And I mostly thought that during times when I was troubled, like during my adolescence and some of the time during my 20s. That was tough times. I was rebellious and not allowing the wisdom that