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

Why Leonardo Da Vinci matters

Did you know that his life spanned from 1452 – 1519? Did you know that his full legal name is Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci? I find it impressive and gorgeous to write out and then to pronounce–add a flare of Italian accent to it and I promise that you will feel a surge

Where we chose to be

I love how easy it is to be any place on the planet within about a day or two…..you just decide where it is you want to be and don’t allow any barriers. You can go, there are an endless number of ways to make it happen. I am happy to know this as a

The value of the head

The gruesome acts being committed against human beings by a group trying to deliver a message includes beheadings. This is a nightmare to witness, to hear about, to envision, or to even have within intellectual range to consider let alone comprehend. We are frightened and outraged, individually and collectively. This is not just about brutal

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

The story is a wrongful perspective…

It is sad to see life come to an end, regardless of the circumstances. Life is precious. We who are here in this life value the breaths we are taking. Our hearts break a bit when someone dies, when it is someone close to us we feel like there is no possibility for future happiness.

When anger prevails we create–The Ferguson Ordeal

There was a movie about youth who wanted to fight, they were called rebels without a cause. There are times in the lifespan when we search for our identity and try on all sorts of tactics in an effort to understand who we are in the face of others. There are elements of this that
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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