This week I stumbled across something once stated by Winston Churchill: “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Stumbling across these words was one of those perfectly timed discoveries. I was sitting in a moment of frustration…on the verge of adopting a temporary defeatist state of mind. Those words pulled me out of my defeatist attitude and Read more…
We all have been or will be confronted by something that will, in some way, change the rest of our lives. It is something that will always be in the back of our minds. We may forget about it from time to time but eventually it will find a way to creep back up and remind us that it really Read more…
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Robert Frost Therapy sessions can be intense. Clients and therapists can both be brought to their knees by the expression of an emotion or the recounting of a difficult life moment. I think that this Read more…
Goodbyes are a mystery to many. Whenever we say goodbye to someone, we comfort ourselves with the compulsory…”this is not goodbye, this is see you later.” Realistically, though, it is a goodbye. It is a goodbye to what once was and a hello to what will be. Our relationship changes when we say goodbye to someone. This is sometimes deliberate. Read more…
So many of us live our lives in fear of judgment. We fear that if people knew the real us that it would all be over. That we would no longer be accepted and that we would instead be discarded and left to live in isolation. What I find to be fascinating about judgment is that we all fear it on Read more…
