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By Jeff Foster It's simple. When you're sad, just feel sad. Don't try to be happy. Trying is exhausting. Don't push your sadness away....

Experiencing trauma can be a deeply disconnecting experience. Trauma survivors often feel alone and isolated. Every person’s reaction...

“How wonderful it is that no-one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank It is wonderful, and...

Listening to Roger Soloman speak recently about using EMDR with clients who are grieving, I was taken with the concept of the assumptive...

“A true act of self-care nurtures you in the moment but also nourishes the person that you are becoming. It helps you cope now but also...

Everything is waiting for you Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning...

Now the structure of my house extension is up, my attention has turned to the garden. So far some 21 tons of concrete / gravel has come...

A man walking through the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs and wondered how it lived. Then he saw a tiger come with game in its...

"One of the qualities that you can develop, particularly in your older years, is a sense of great compassion for yourself. When you visit...

Spring has certainly sprung. Buds, blossoms, lambs, warmer weather...we are blessed with the turning of the season and the seeming...

“Compassion is the courage to descend into the reality of human experience” Paul Gilbert So often compassion is seen as something warm...

I happened across a post traumatic growth inventory recently, and I read it through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic. Working on the...

“Routines are concrete repetitive actions that help us develop skills while creating continuity and order. Rituals are routines elevated...

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.” – Alan Watts I happened...

Today is Maha Shivratri, one of the largest and most significant among the sacred festival nights of India, coming from the Hindu...

This International Women’s Day I wanted to reflect on the tendency some of us have of judging our own worth and value on the opinions of...

Who are you, what you believe to be true about yourself, or what others tell you you are? My sense of it is that we are complex beings. ...

“It is just amazing how we follow patterns we created until "reality" bumps into us and forces us to reconsider the current validity of...

"We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale...

“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection The water has no mind to receive their image.” — Zenrin Kushu This Friday a Zen...