HOW TO BE AUTHENTIC: Knowing your truth
'Beyond our ideas of right doing and wrongdoing there is a field I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, [...]
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE NEW YEAR: Setting goals, intentions or “leaning in”.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting and start living. Maxime [...]
REVISITING THE PAST: Regrets For the Road Not Travelled
I just finished reading the Midnight Library by Matt Haig where Nora, the protagonist in the book, is so overcome with regrets that she takes her life only to have a second chance to address [...]
HOW TO ESCAPE THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME
I was asked to speak about the “imposter syndrome” and it left me musing about my time as a MA student at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, now Adler University. I finished my BA [...]
FINDING CLARITY AND PURPOSE IN UNCERTAINTY
We have all been through a period of profound change and, for some or most of us, tough challenges. The COVID-19 Pandemic has changed all aspects of our lives, work, relationships, health and, for many, [...]
PRAISE FOR PATIENCE: A lost virtue
I have been thinking about how a year of the COVID pandemic has forced people to make changes or maybe not! A year of mask wearing, no major trips, seeing less of friends and work [...]
RECOVERING FROM CHALLENGING EXPERIENCES
This has been quite a tumultuous time so far! How do we process change and uncertainty, change that affects routines, threatens our work and financial security, and significantly alters our relationships with others? For some, [...]
IMPROVING YOUR RESILIENCE
I found this article I wrote in 2012 and I thought it would be very timely given the challenges we are facing with COVID-19 in 2020-21. We have lots of organizations and web resources to [...]
OUR SOCIAL BRAIN AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
What we thought we knew about the brain is shifting rapidly because of the research of the past 10 years. Daniel Siegel (2008), Allan Schore (2009), and others have gathered recent neurobiological research, interpreted it, [...]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRAUMA AND PTSD
Do you have any of these symptoms? If you have any of the following you might have post traumatic symptoms or qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD: nightmares and sleep disruption, not feeling safe [...]