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When I hurt, I don’t want clever advice, just a little handholding and reassurance that I’ll be OK. Photo by LOGAN WEAVER | @LGNWVR  on...

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What feeling blue at dusk can teach us. My mom tells me she sometimes feels bluesy at dusk. “When the sun starts to set and that cool...

There is nothing new under the sun…so let’s stop trying to be original and just have fun! Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay I was...

Learning how to move less defensively through life. Image by  Michal Renčo  from  Pixabay For the first time yesterday, I went walking in...

Are you getting tripped-up by the unholy trinity of excessive emotional laboring, intellectual arrogance, and spiritual materialism?...

How Carlos Castaneda’s story about a dancing whore reveals the desperation of the human experience. Photo by Carrie Borden  on Unsplash...

{A poem} Image by fszalai from Pixabay I talk too much Offer too many potential solutions CBT, narrative, somatic, psychoanalytic...