I’ve Got Your Back!

As a psychotherapist I see quite a few couples in therapy. We psychotherapists are always being asked what we think is important in a relationship. Obviously a couple knowing such things can be helpful, especially if there really are some magic words of wisdom out there that could make relationships easier to navigate through. I don’t [...]

By |2017-07-23T16:54:46-04:00November 27th, 2012|Categories: Love, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Relationship, Self Help|3 Comments

The Return of Christmas

I love Christmas. Everyone has his or her own memories of Christmas as a child, and I am no exception. Christmas in our house was incredibly special. My mother was dubbed early on by my family the “Queen of Christmas.” She would decorate the house with greens, holly, and a huge variety of glass ornaments she [...]

All Dogs Go to Heaven II

The last of the Great Siberian Husky Clan has died this week. Bobo was put to peaceful sleep on Thursday, September 15, almost a year to the day that his dear mother, Neli, died. I miss him terribly, just as I had missed his mother…but maybe more. Bobo is the last of a string of dogs [...]

By |2017-07-23T10:05:42-04:00September 19th, 2011|Categories: Beauty, Dog Therapy, Grief, Humanistic, Love, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Self Help, Spiritual|3 Comments

The Power of Prayer

This is a huge topic and I will only touch on it here. What is truly exciting about it is that even scientific studies have shown prayer to be effective. I say “even scientific studies” because I am not a real fan of trying to prove the existence of God, or of soul, or spirit, [...]

Spiritual Bypass

The other day I began research on a new book I am writing tentatively titled “Divine Mediocrity: Being Happy With the Life You’ve Got.” I was intrigued by an Internet article I read about spiritual bypass, and had contrasted that reading experience with a recent re-look at the infamous little film “The Secret.” I was a [...]

The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

So I was very proud to be a human as I walked out of the theatre that night—maybe only for a moment, but that moment was sublime. I thought of the huge responsibility that came with the ability to create in this fashion, and I thought about how we were still acting like children in taking on that responsibility.

By |2017-07-23T10:02:04-04:00October 15th, 2010|Categories: Beauty, Creativity, Humanistic, Love, Music|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |6 Comments

A Unique Life—A Creative Life

All lives are unique. Each of us creates a story that will never be told the same way again. Each of us sees the world in a slightly different way, and each of us brings something unique and special to the other people and other living things we encounter on our journey through life.

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