“Ah, don’t feel sad…” “Don’t feel that way…” “Don’t feel guilty….” Commonly, and often, we’re told not to feel something. To that I say STOP. Feel it. It’s okay to feel it. You’re not going to melt, it WILL stop, you won’t kill anyone with your anger (unless you use violence). Just now, someone told […]
I’m creating this post exclusively in order to test out the Membership Category. This test 1 of 3 before I go live with the Empowerment Project. If I click the right button’s when I post this, this very blog shouldn’t be able to be seen by anyone that’s not a “Member” of my site. Okay. […]
### I just got off the phone with someone. They described all that they were doing for others. Doing and doing and doing and doing and doing…and doing…and doing…and doing…for others. When I see them in person, that’s what they talk about, too, what they’re doing for others. Oh, they’re not saying “Oh, look at […]
### In my previous post of “A friend’s depression (part 1),” I talked about how I thought what I thought when my friend started describing his signs/symptoms of depression during a call he made to me. At the end of that article, I said that I would follow up with this story, and what may […]
### A friend of mine who lives on the East Coast called and was sharing how he was experiencing challenging times recently. Because I’m, well, I’m me, I asked what was happening. As the conversation progressed, it was clear he was experiencing the signs and symptoms of what’s called a “depressive episode” in the world […]
Saying goodbye can be one of THE most difficult things that we do while we’re here on the planet. The grief and loss of losing our friend (whether that be my boyfriend, my girlfriend, my wife, my husband, my grandma, best friend, etc…) can be devastating. The letter that this little boy wrote in […]
I was privileged to speak to a wonderful group of people down in Manhattan Beach on Saturday. The topic was New Thought Spirituality and Psychotherapy–I’m calling it Spiritual Psychology because of the blending of the two concepts. When I present a topic on something, I’m really prone to asking the audience questions and I’m genuinely […]
I think it’s hugely important in relationships to be able to spot & identify narcissism. In simple terms, if I’m looking for an emotional response, an emotional connection from the other person based on something that’s going on in my life, and they just aren’t there for me, this may be an indication of narcissism. If […]
This is maybe a little out of the norm of what I write but I wanted to offer this to you. To be clear, I didn’t write this, it’s a poem that I do think speaks about finding one’s own voice and finding one’s own strength. While doing some cleaning and organizing of my own, […]