This is a modified version of a chapter in the book I wrote about my childhood. The book is called, “Twelfth Child.” It is not published, but now and then I use parts of it when I speak and bits and pieces of it have shown up here as part of blogs and in other ...
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Tags: abuse, community, compassion, existential, feelings, meaning, personal growth, solutions, well-being
You’ve no doubt heard the old saying, “Hindsight is 20/20.” I take this to mean we see things looking back to our past much more clearly than we saw them when we were still in the past. A related saying is, “If I had only known then what I now know, I would not have ...
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Tags: anxiety, existential, feelings, personal growth, self-awareness, well-being
Have you ever had a moment when you were willing to let go completely of all of the things that had ever been done to you? When you didn’t care who did this or that, why they did it, whether they might try to do it again? When you are seemingly filled to the brim ...
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Tags: compassion, feelings, personal growth, self-awareness, well-being
During one of the first few sessions, clients sometimes ask me if I have been in therapy myself. Not surprisingly, they find the question awkward because they both want an answer and consider it important and because they are not sure if it is okay for them to ask. As with almost anything in ...
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Tags: personal growth, self-awareness, solutions, well-being
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