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3 Guiding Quotes toward Embodiment for Injury Prevention & Well-Being
If you want to be safe and well in this world – both physically and mentally – you have to be embodied. Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.– James Joyce My work as a psychologist often focuses on helping people reconnect with their inner experience. We've...
If you listen to your body when it whispers, you won’t have to hear it scream
In mid-January 2020, swirling with misinformation regarding a strange new bug called COVID-19, I journeyed to Thailand to teach meditation. Students ranging from newbie Europeans to wizened local Buddhists dove into my secular-American take on mindfulness. Two months...
3 Simple Communication Tips to Strengthen Relationship Bonds at Home & at Work
Understanding is Key to Close Relationships Core to a successful relationship is confidence that the other person knows, cares for, validates, and accepts exactly who we are – that we’re understood. Love and trust can’t be achieved without this level of...
If Change is What You’re Seeking, Seek Out Symbols to Show You the Way
I had a Big Dream – the kind of surreal experience that lingers for weeks, startles and transforms. Provoked by a guiding question, “Who is my ally?” I expected to greet some mystical creature. Instead, it was Geoff – my therapist. My reaction: “Hell, no.” This was...
The Stages of Change for Writers: Insights from an Online Writing Course
Trying to convert my writing style from long-form to short-form feels like it’s breaking my brain. My organic style is long-form and, given that I’ve been working on a book recently, that makes sense. Book chapters seem to be my unit of thought. But writing...