The enormity of this global moment hits when we learn that in Jerusalem, the church of the Holy Sepulchre (above) had to close its doors due to a pandemic for the second time ever this week.  The first time it was locked for this reason – using the same key – was in 1349, during...Read More

I have to let winter be winter.  I recently learned that my cousin ended his own life.  This brought on a wide range of difficult and conflicting feelings all in the same hour: bewilderment, guilt, anger, grief, powerlessness, nostalgia, blame.  I am guessing he was at first reluctant to be here, then decisive–he could not...Read More

Our habits of mind can play incredible tricks on us. One of the first things I learned to do as a nurse was to accurately name things… once we have the accurate assessment, then the right remedy can follow. This simple principle can help us self-regulate, get unstuck and acknowledge and remedy unspecified stress or...Read More

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by.  And that has made all the difference.                             Robert Frost 1874-1963 Recently, a man in my community was struck with pancreatic cancer. He fought it mightily and then...Read More

Vulnerability (latin wounding first known use 1605) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis When we are going through an exceptionally hard time in our life, we may find it irritating or insensitive to hear about the tenants of positive psychology. The full experiencing of grief makes us...Read More