Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through …grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.      Richard Rohr As we hit the one-year mark of this *&^%$* pandemic, many of us feel our limit has been reached and we can...Read More

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.                    Nelson Mandela In January 2017, I met my brother John in California for a “Weekend with David Whyte.”  As a...Read More

For many people, holidays bring up a wide range of old and new emotional pain.  One client of mine is spending time with a relative in active addiction; another is facing a belligerent parent.   It can be helpful to have some tools at-the-ready when dealing with our most difficult family members.  Rather than avoid, attack...Read More

In a NY Times article, Barbara Ehrenreich suggests that claims attached to gratitude are hollow. Laying on a yoga mat feeling grateful doesn’t provide gratitude to anyone who deserves it such as migrant farm workers with aching backs. She questions the attitude of gratitude for the $8 an-hour Walmart employee who gets a raise to...Read More