Under the surface of suburbia, life is the same here as it is anywhere else. The endless communities of single family dwellings stretch out and stretch out, beyond where the eye can see. Yet beneath the appearances, there are a myriad of individual lives. People…
In the first part of this series, I wrote about how the experience of connection to a specific place that is home can be powerful and profound. However, there are also many people for whom there is no connection to a sense of home. And, for…
A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life. Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the horns of a major dilemma, with a decision to be made between…
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of “taboo” about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal…
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel (“322 days…