I read a book a few years ago called The Artist's Way, a curriculum designed to help blocked artists wake back up and be able to create again. I picked it up after a nudge from a good friend who knew I loved art and saw it as a spiritual process. The author, Julie Cameron, so well articulates the innate human desire to create, as well as the human tendency to fear poor performance. In our fear we become frozen, robotic in our production of art or entirely losing our ability t

I am regularly impressed with the humility of clients who walk in my door. To go to counseling is to admit to your own ego that you don't have it all together, and then to bravely confess that disappointment out loud to another human being. Everyone should go to counseling. For at least six months of your life, face yourself so directly that you're willing to examine what's working and what's not, with a companion trained to support you from a differentiated position. Put on

I recently moved for the thirteenth time in my life. I had plenty of help, but this means I have physically touched every single piece of my property in the last month. That's a lot of things. Moving has reminded me that without intention I can easily become a mild hoarder and too sentimental. I can have a scarcity mentality and look at such a long-term picture of my life, you'd think I was a prepper too. But being in this new space has made me remember how much happier I am

A few years ago I took a training to learn EMDR, an acronym for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This modality is well-researched and highly effective in healing almost all psychological symptoms. It's fairly miraculous to watch and experience personally. Problems I thought for ten years we could only manage I now see as actually healable. Part of the training involves participating in some EMDR ourselves, utilizing low-impact events. Low-impact events are somew

There are two things that define the effects of trauma: A lack of consent Insufficient support Therefore, healing requires: The opportunity to consent Sufficient support Consent As a kid, one of the most motivating factors for me was remaining in control of myself. I couldn't have named this then, but if I felt forced to do something, I was not going to do it. It didn't matter if the opportunity was going to Disney World or raiding a candy shop. If you were going to try to ma