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You might think because I write this column and I’ve been a therapist all my life, that I have my stuff together. Ha! I wish that were true. There is no doubt that I have learned a great deal about… Continue Reading →

“One can be conscious of the limits of everything except one’s own consciousness.” Steven Hayes It’s a toss-up which I love more – therapy or teaching – but what I love the most about each of them are the people… Continue Reading →

From January to April of this year, I taught a nine-week class at First United Methodist Church based on The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris. As I previously explained, Harris helps us understand how our efforts to “get happy” are… Continue Reading →

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, 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 language, ideas, even the phrase each other doesn’t… Continue Reading →

On rare occasions in my life, I’ve suffered momentary break-downs when sudden waves of sorrow would sweep over me in a storm of tears that wrenched up out of me in sobbing pleas and prayers; petitions to some unknown force for answers that never came. Continue Reading →

I had no right to take my mother for granted but I did it anyway. I knew she would die one day but I refused to think about it and even worse, I carefully concealed the fact of my avoidance from myself. That way I did not struggle. No conflict. Continue Reading →

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly… Continue Reading →