Slowing Down with a Summer Cold

Today I woke up with a tickle in my throat and a determination not to let this turn into a full summer cold. I thought about all of the calls and emails and busy work that I had to do before seeing my clients. I could rush to work and try to cross everything off […]

Big Hips

Yesterday I was helping my 3 year old get dressed when she exclaimed, “I have big hips.” What?! I must have heard her wrong. “I have big hips” she repeated. My heart started racing. Where did she hear that?! It’s not something I say. Or is it and I don’t remember? I started to get […]

No, I’m not Dr. Phil

I recently had a final session with a client where we reviewed their progress. They achieved the goals that they wanted to in therapy and we were discussing our work together. “How was therapy for you?” I asked. Pause. Pause continues. I started to feel apprehensive. In my head I went over our sessions and […]

Continuing the work of 2011

I didn’t create a New Year’s resolution. I don’t like the idea of starting off the New Year with this grand idea or gesture of how I am going to change/improve/grow myself. Inevitably by March I struggle to remember what it was I was supposed to change. Instead I thought that I would enter the […]

Enough of the Bloody Images!

Everywhere you turn there are news reports of the death of Muammar Gaddafi. What has been disturbing me for the past two days is the images of his dead body EVERYWHERE. I went to the store to buy a banana and the newspaper next to the bananas had a graphic image of Gaddafi’s corpse. Later […]