“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.” – Mahatma Gandhi As Gandhi reminds us, integrity begins quietly … Continue reading Integrity as Compass: Gandhi’s Wisdom for Our Time
As a therapist in today’s treatment climate, I work with many clients seeking recovery from narcissistic abuse. Terms like narcissism, gaslighting, and love bombing have become common in everyday language, yet for survivors, these words represent more than terminology. They … Continue reading The Illusion of Tomorrow: Future Faking in Narcissistic Abuse.
As we mark our country’s independence this July, it invites us to reflect on what true independence means for each of us—both personally and collectively. True independence includes self-awareness, resilience, and the ability to choose how we navigate our lives … Continue reading Interdependence and Independance: Reflections for July 2025.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”— J. Krishnamurti (Also attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson) We are living in an age where Seeming self-expression has never been easier, … Continue reading The Freedom of Authenticity: Social Media, Mental Health, and the Quiet Wisdom of Sparrows.
This morning, I woke to the lyrics from Jelly Roll’s soulful song LIAR. It wasn’t playing anywhere in my space, but was seemingly on repeat in my brain. Specifically the soul reaching words, “I know you ain’t nothing but a … Continue reading The Liar’s Paradox. The Implications of Dishonesty and Need for it’s Counterpart Honesty.
To speak of sorrow; works upon it. Moves it from its crouched place, barring the way to and from the soul’s hall. To Speak of Sorrow, by Denise Levertov This beautiful poem by Denise Levertov, captures the essence and importance … Continue reading The Importance in Processing Experiences of Grief and Loss.
Psychological defense is constructed to protect us. In the beginning, during its original Constuction, it does. Through time it grows, doing its job, until it becomes a barrier to seeing what needs to be seen. In the process of recovering … Continue reading The Precarious Nature of Blinders.
We saw him, a young man of middle eastern descent likely in his mid-teens, walking along the dark highway toward an unknown destination. It was well past midnight, on that warm August night, and I worried when I saw him … Continue reading Common Humanity
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear in that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?Actually, who … Continue reading Our Deepest Fear: Nelson Mandela
As it is often said, self discovery is a process. When we are in struggle we can understandably forget that we are in the process of becoming. And who we become is highly dependent on the choices we make along … Continue reading Self Discovery: The Journey is The Longest Part.
Perspective on Trauma 