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I’ve had the pleasure of making some new connections personally and professionally in recent weeks, which has felt good after the...

“Adaptability does not prioritize drastic change over fierce rigidity. Adaptability is the conversation within us between stability and...

“Like a tree, our growth depends upon our ability to soften, loosen, and shed defenses we no longer need.” Daily OM This quote popped...

I’m introducing another simple reflection tool today, one I met many moons ago when I trained as a life coach. It’s called a Life Wheel,...

Today I want to talk about the third stage of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development model, which is one way of explaining the phases we...

I discovered recently that the root of the word alone is all-one. Clarissa Pinkola Estes expresses this beautifully, saying “To be all...

In my twenties, I recall going on a Dale Carnegie training course, and being told ‘seek first to understand, and then to be understood.’ ...

I’ve been looking out of my therapy room window, noticing the increasingly long grass of my newly laid lawn. I’ve read so many...

I just love my garden at this time of year. My therapy room looks out onto it, and it is delighting me to notice that sometimes hour to...

I was speaking to a wise colleague recently, and she shared an anecdote which made me smile. She came home one night, with a big bunch of...

I was reminded this week of the important function of self-criticism. You know, that irritating, debilitating voice inside that nit...