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Free Therapy #29: Mind your Moksha

We all seek control. Even my cat. Lately, she has been waking me up earlier than I want in the hopes that I will put our two German shepherds outside so she can have the whole house to herself. In… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #28: Languages of Love and Blame

It is tough being a human and one of the hardest tasks we face is making our relationships work.  From the moment we are born, we try to figure out how to relate to others.  It is the reason most… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #27: Couples in Pain

There is no sadder song than a failed marriage. When a marital union falls apart, it is like a large glass chandelier crashing to the floor, sending shards of glass in all directions. Everyone gets cut: children, parents, siblings and… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #26: Our Purpose

“Reality changes because we change in our perceptions and experiences of it. To try and stop that flow is to deny our very life force, our humanity. It is to try to force limitless truth into a particular container of… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #25: The Price You Pay for Love

Did you ever think that it would be like this? The price you pay for love. Did you ever think that it would feel like this? The price you pay for love. The price you pay, willingly. The price you… Continue Reading

Suicide Survivors Gather for Grief Support, Nov 23

Join others who have suffered the loss of a friend or family member to suicide at the International Survivors of Suicide Day Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, at the Redding Library. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) sponsors the event, held… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #24: Advice for Becoming a Therapist

As I type this I have just returned from a sacred ritual that only some lucky parents get to enjoy: the annual return to college, a pilgrimage of semi-epic proportions where we journey to the far reaches of this long,… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #23: Tinnitus is Music, Part 3

As I shared in my last two columns, I used to suffer with tinnitus but not any longer. I still have it. Like I have baldness and other symptoms of being 57 years old. It is present like the clouds… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #22: Tinnitus is Music, Part 2

My dear brother Jim married Karen in June of 2005 in Denver, Colorado. In the months leading up to the wedding I was living in my own private hell. Few knew how much I suffered. From nowhere it seemed, as… Continue Reading

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Free Therapy #21: Tinnitus is Music, Part 1

To be alive in the world is to possess a priceless gift of self-awareness. Usually we take this for granted. We are not normally in awe of the fact. It is easy to yawn and shrug at the incredible and stunning truth that we are alive on a round rock that is rotating at a 1000 miles an hour at the equator. Continue Reading