Reflections on Resiliency
Insights and resources from our community of practitioners.
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Travel as a Restorative and Transformative Experience
As summer ends and we continue to return to life pre-pandemic, the busy lives we led…
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The Difficult Work of Welcoming Our Painful Emotions
I was a young man and first starting my own spiritual and therapeutic journey, I imagined…
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My Mantra for the past 40 years: The Influence of Roethke’s The Waking:
I thought I would close these musings on poetry and the journey of life with a poem that I first…
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A Face of the Moon
Truly, darkness does precede illumination The stillness and uncertainty of that which is unknown Is the way to move in…
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The Difficult Work of Love
When I first see couples who are struggling in their relationship, I sometimes share this line from the poet Rilke…
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Leaving Home and Learning to Listen to Your Own Voice
Leaving home and starting to separate and individuate from our families is one of the first, most difficult, and exciting…
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How Did I Get Here? What Have I Learned?
I’m grateful I’m learning To look back on all my Bumbling, misguided failures And see them…
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Using Poetry in the Journey of Psychotherapy
I’ve been reading, writing and listening to poetry for inspiration, enjoyment, and as a balm…
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Poetry in Motion: Lessons from Ecotherapy
I have just recently discovered a new Ecotherapy idea which I am calling “poetry in motion”: You select a poem…
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The Difficult Work of Recovering Love for One’s Self After Love Has Ended
One of the more common and heartbreaking reasons that many people decide to enter therapy is due to the end…
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Restarting
In a yoga class I took twenty years ago, the teacher told us our bodies are different every day. So,…
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