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Stop the Comparisons!
The comparison game tends to convince you that the only way to proceed is to look at what others are doing because you are not enough. These "comparison attacks" get exacerbated with social media but frankly can come on even when you are doing super well. I know this...
The Buck Stops With You.
Decoding, troubleshooting, teaching, facilitating and the subsequent healing of multi-generational patterns of dysfunction is my reason for being; my purpose. I have known this since I was a teenager when I declared, after some major family strife that the buck stops...
Love is Like Learning a Language
Love is Like Learning a Language As we head into the crazed Valentine's Day madness we need to care for our tender hearts! What I am most interested in talking about during this time is how did you learn to love... from family-culture. If all you saw was dysfunction,...
Despair Leads To Repair
Despair Leads To Repair Are you ready to be teachable? I find that life has way of sending us massive challenges that can lead us to feeling a sense of despair. Yet as painful as these challenges can be, they can also lead us to the greatest insights, growth and...
January Courageous Conversations
A COURAGEOUS NEW YEAR IS HERE! Oh wow! 2019 is the year of the pig and a number 3 year!Which means we will be bringing in lots of juicy abundance and we are encouraged to collaborate and be creative. That means we need to be courageous in our dealings with our own...
The Final Frontier For Emotional Health Is Peace
Living without peace is like being a frog put in a pot of cold water atop a hot stove that is unknowingly slowly boiling to death. The frog sits there quite unaware of its fate since it keeps adjusting to the temperature, not fully realizing the impending doom that...
To The Edge And Back: Anxiety Rediscovered
I recently had the opportunity to walk on the edge of the CN Tower in Toronto! It was all at once exhilarating and absolutely mind numbingly terrifying. The experience was a paradigm shift for me. To my total surprise I was more afraid than the self-proclaimed fear of...
Get in “Right” Relationship With Self and Life!
You cannot have a good relationship with life if your relationship with yourself is off the rails. Developing a “right” relationship with yourself requires disciplined thinking and a willingness to be in a teachable state with life. When living by these principles, a...
Quickie Guide to V Day: Navigate the Dating and Relationship World in a Healthy and Empowered way
Published on What She Said, February 11, 2016 Calling all lovers, daters and relationship seekers! Valentine’s Day is often a reminder for us that dating and relationships can thrill you, and take you down emotionally. Over the years, I have developed a set of rules...
A Therapist’s Guide To Surviving Valentine’s Day With Your Partner
Published on Huffington Post, February 10, 2016 Over the years as a therapist, I have seen folks muddle through the dating scene and it seems that many are repeating patterns that don't work. And now just in time for the almighty Valentine's day where dating seems to...
