Living, as we do, in the part of the world focused mostly on individuals, it is easy to miss the power and strength of belonging to human and animal relationships, the earth, the Spirit, and even oneself. It is true that doctors, lawyers, financial folk, therapists, and most professionals principally occupy themselves with individuals. They/we […]
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Fixing Family Dynamics
It is interesting how the process of trying to fix family dynamics usually backfires. Here’s my most recent example. An aged member of my family has profound hearing loss and a tendency, as the years go by, to personalize things rather morosely. The former condition has him missing out on the mundane conversations that make […]
Relationship Rehab
Rehabbing the Heart After a Breakup After a heart wrenching breakup or a series of challenging relationships, we often find ourselves becoming lost in the ugly mire of projecting negative thought patterns on the world around us and onto the being within us. How many of us have witnessed ourselves thinking “love does not really […]
Being Broken Open
Being “broken open” sounds pretty awful at first glance, doesn’t it? The meanings of words can be very different from one person to another—even to people who were raised in the same family! Besides being the source of many arguments between otherwise loving people, the same word or expression can point to some very different […]
Looking Back to Move Forward
Humans are very social beings. For thousands of years they have lived cooperatively in groups. Granted, part of this behaviour was simply for survival; but it is also very natural for humans to live interdependently. Before the industrial revolution, before the advent of the automobile and flying, people travelled and migrated much less than they […]