Inspiration
When you’re in the throes of anxiety or in the thick forest of a healing path, reading words that remind you of your goodness, your wholeness, and the arc of healing can be a lifeline. Many readers bookmark or print out these blog posts so they can easily refer to them when they need a dose of inspiration and a pathway of light as they’re traversing through the dark terrain of anxiety.
Being in Silence
We live in a very loud world. The industrial revolution shattered the silence and rhythmic sounds of the natural world and the technological revolution has escalated noise to new heights. It seems that most people can hardly last three minutes without grabbing some...
The Mysterious Element of Healing
We're wired to heal. We're meant to touch down into and live from our place of wholeness. We are, in fact, already whole, and much of the healing process is about learning to reconnect to our intrinsic wholeness. We long to heal, to know joy and fulfillment on a daily...
You Are Loved
You can listen to this post as an MP3 below: If you knew you were fully loved, if you knew that you were whole and worthy exactly as you are just for being intrinsically you, your anxiety would disappear. If you could plug into a source of spiritual truth that...
Take Back Your Gold
Last Monday, after a typical Colorado October snowstorm, my sons and I drove into town to serve dinner to the homeless. Consistent with this time of year, the snow started to melt just hours after it fell, and what was left was a stunning display of beauty where the...
A Moment in My Marriage
There are moments in my marriage that take my breath away. Last Sunday on Mother's Day, the four of us spent several hours working on my garden. My garden is one of my sanctuaries, but every year the grass from the lawn finds its way into my vegetable beds and by...
A Beautiful Cry
One of the most potent prescriptions for healing intrusive thoughts and anxiety from the root is to allow ourselves to live in whole-hearted, full-bodied expression. This means taking the lid off of our joy just as much as our pain, and learning to spiral out of...
Angels All Around Us
There is so much pain in this world. There's personal pain that often takes the form of anxiety, depression, addictions, and intrusive thoughts. There's the physical pain of illness, injury, and disabilities, both short-term and chronic. There's relationship pain when...
You Are Whole
I have several clients currently pursuing their graduate degree in counseling. While they're enjoying their studies and learning a lot, they're also coming up against the rigid and, at times, judgmental model that informs most Western-based schools. For the...
The Richness of Winter
It's not here yet, but for the highly sensitive among us we feel winter's imminent descent with each minute of daylight that joins the tribe of night. The days are shorter; the leaves have almost completed their arabesques and twirls of their final dance. Soon the...