Let’s be honest…it’s the epidemic no one talks about…but shapes our culture more than we care to admit. The availability of pornography on the internet is staggering…the ease with which anybody can access pictures of a pornographic nature is frighteningly easy. It’s an unspoken factor in many relationships…women feel ugly and fat and unloved when …
Hump Day Nudge…Say Yes!
Last May, I saw this video and blogged about it…LOVED the joy, the silliness, the hope, the giggles it stirred inside…it was a tribute to life! Isaac and Amy released a new video that honours family…their heritage, their courage, and the leap that their grandparents and parents took to embrace love and life and the …
Do we let men be real?
What happens when a guy gets tired? What happens when a guy loses someone important to him? What happens when a guy gets betrayed, disappointed, loses out, gets shafted, is ambushed, has one thing after another not go his way? He experiences life as hard, that’s what. And while we might let him cuss, yell, …
Avoiding Goodness for Fear’s Sake
Even good things can feel scary. Good things can have us feel vulnerable. Vulnerability can feel scary…and so we avoid taking risks…even when the risk means a good thing. Like: applying for a desired program handing in the paper you worked hard on accepting the invitation to the party being the first to smile to …
A Thought
I hate vulnerability too!
We all do. Therapists explore matters with clients all the time that, when discussed, are deeply exposing and revealing of deep parts of the client. Some clients come in…ready to let a stranger-therapist in on those deep, hidden parts, because as hard as it is to talk to a stranger, it is infinitely easier to …
A Thought
Saw this quote yesterday…got me even more for the Perfectly Imperfect group, beginning January 23 for 10 Wednesdays. For women who want to let go of who they think they should be to embrace the person who they genuinely are.
Perfectly Imperfect-Join us?
Nadia Sawaya and I recently had a conversation about the Perfectly Imperfect Group that she led last fall. She spoke about the power of community…of women speaking honestly into each other’s lives in ways that were life changing. In the final group, the women spoke with each other about how little and big things had …
The balance bar
Permeable and porous…not wide open, nor shut tight. Sigh… …so not easy. I wrote recently of the challenges and the richness of “both/and” living…embracing the joys and sorrows of life simultaneously. It’s easier to be “either/or”…a Pollyanna or an Eeyore…but being stuck in one posture leaves little flexilibility to be both joyful and authentic, to …