Redding therapist Doug Craig

As I write these words, I am sitting in the back of my wife’s Prius as we head up 101 from Santa Barbara, feeling a tremendous mixture of emotions after watching my youngest daughter graduate from college. Continue Reading →

To understand the secret to acquiring mental peace, we need to understand the methods our brains employ in keeping it from us.  It might seem strange to think our own brain is hard at work to (inadvertently) make or keep… Continue Reading →

The worst moments of my day almost always occur in the morning, those few minutes where I know I can no longer hit the snooze button and I must arise and face the day. A mixed palate of anxiety and… Continue Reading →

Much of my work and many of my sessions in the past five years or more have increasingly involved assisting clients in acquainting themselves with their observing self or mind. Since not all of us understand this aspect of our… Continue Reading →

In my last blog I shared what I have found to be universally true about the human condition.  We are not always responsible for what happens to us but we are always responsible for how we react. One of my… Continue Reading →

In my last blog I explored the two rooms of the mind, the courtroom and the science room or laboratory. In the first room we find a judge, critic or evaluator who uses the blunt tools of goodness, badness, rightness,… Continue Reading →

“The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life – that it can’t be much else.” Shunryu Suzuki It has been my observation that I suffer… Continue Reading →

Just because a person is a car mechanic, it doesn’t mean her car won’t break and need repair. A skilled roofer could find himself in a house where the roof leaks. Our physician could get sick. Of course, this is… Continue Reading →

Failure. I wrote the word “Failure” in large block letters just beneath the cheery cursive greeting: “Hello my name is”, peeled off the label backing and slapped it on the left side of my chest as I stood up to… Continue Reading →