Articles
I Can’t Hear You?
My son told me a story not too long ago about an incident he had seen on television that made an indelible impression on him. Apparently, a plane had crashed and a crowd of reporters were in the terminal talking to the family members of the passengers and trying to...
Good News – Bad News
What’s that saying about the road that’s paved with good intentions? Well no doubt this year we will all make our list of the things we intend to change after the New Year. Then, about 2 days or 20 minutes, after this resolution has made with fists in the air and a...
The Key to Enlightenment
I walked right into it. At an Institute of Noetic Sciences Conference this month, an audience of some 800 people was asked to choose a person in the audience nearest to them and do an exercise. The exercise was to find the issue in the world today that breaks your...
A Potpourri of Light: Yours. Mine and Ours
True spirituality comes in as many forms as there are people. If you want to see Spirit in color, you look at a flower. If you want to see Spirit in flight, look at a bird. If you want to see Spirit with power, you stand beside the ocean. Your greatest spirituality...
It’s Your Choice
One of the greatest gifts in the Universe is free will. Amazingly, we still don’t understand the impact of the reality that we each, individually, get to create our lives exactly the way we want them to be - through choice. We have all experienced that odd sensation...
Was God Wrong?
I think God got it backwards. By the time you have all the tools and start to understand how this wondrous system called life works, your body starts to fall apart. What was She thinking? When you are young you have so many ideas about how life works and what it all...
Just the Three of Us
Relationships are my specialty. I get to watch them as they fall apart in order to fall back into place in my office. I have a very high success rate but it’s not necessarily about me. It is about the couples who come to the understanding that relationships, any...
Eclectic Spirits
Do you think it is possible to create a successful relationship when one individual is of one faith or religious belief and the other follows another type of belief - or perhaps isn't in to spirituality of any kind? Not only is it possible to create successful...
Better Than The Fantasy
“Now that my partner is sober, she’s talking about her dreams and all the things that she wants to accomplish in life. Is this fantasy or reality and how should I respond?” This question comes up very often in therapy from the spouses of newly sober partners and...
Bound to Happen or Bad Rap?
There is something magnificent about the back of a woman’s neck or the gentle sloping curve of her hip – or his. There’s a certain kind of splendor to silk slipping sensuously off a shoulder and yet, even these delectable delights are not the makings of real intimacy...