“A bell is no bell till you ring it. A song is no song till you sing it. And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay: love isn’t love till you give it away.” –The Sound of Music I recently began reading a book, Anan Cara by John O’Donohue. I’d like to share with you a part of Read more…
I come from a branch of therapy that believes in the power of words. Even subtle differences between words can make a large impact. One of the examples that is frequently used is the difference between these two questions: 1. Can you tell me of a time when the two of you were getting along? 2. Will you tell me Read more…
“Home is wherever I’m with you…” Do you have a feel good song? A song that can immediately snap you out of pretty much anything and everything? Yup, you guessed it! I most certainly do have a feel good song. Mine is “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. It’s a song about relationship. Big surprise that it would Read more…
I stumbled across this article today called: How not to say the wrong thing and thought it was incredible. I wrote a post previously about not telling people not to be sad, but this expands on it in a rich, tangible way (and especially helpful for very sensitive cases). In this “Ring Theory,” you draw rings in this system (read article for Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I went to see a play by the Fine Arts department on campus. It was quite a treat, seeing as we hadn’t had a weekend off work together in a long time. The play was A Gross Indecency by Moïsès Kaufman, which is about the trials of Oscar Wilde during the 1890s. There was Read more…
