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We Are The Therapeutic Agents of Each Other

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28 Jul 2014

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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes...

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I Feel Deeply…

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09 Jul 2014

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Doubling, Spirituality

I change myself, I change the world.” ~ Gloria E. Anzaldua I feel deeply…and I’ve come to see that as a gift. At times, it can feel completely overwhelming, such as on days like today,...

Where’d She Go?

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30 Jun 2014

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Psychodrama, Spirituality

I’ve come to appreciate her – the moon that is – and her patterns of gaining and losing light over the course of the month. The predictability of waxing and waning, waxing and waning, waxing...

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Mercury Retrograde, New Moon in Cancer, and Yes, I’m Really That Woo Woo

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27 Jun 2014

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Spirituality

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves… ~ William Shakespeare A friend left me a voicemail this morning saying that she was “vibrating” [with energy] and she called me because,...

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Silence = Death

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24 Jun 2014

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Addiction, Psychodrama, Recovery

I had the pleasure of watching the film, The Anonymous People tonight. As I told the filmmaker in the Q&A that followed, “I came here prepared to be pissed off at you, but I’m leaving...

Anger, Fear and Sadness

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20 Jun 2014

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For so many of us, fear is a driving force, and it often gets covered over with anger and sadness. For some of us (like me), when I get afraid, my default is to take...

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Defenses, Not Defects

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18 Jun 2014

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Psychodrama

Having facilitated hundreds – if not thousands – of psychodramas over the years with recovering addicts and alcoholics, one of my great beefs with AA is the term “character defects.” For those of you who...

Feeling Limbic

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17 Jun 2014

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Psychodrama, Spirituality

Of all the days to start posting a blog…after the logical part of my brain got “hijacked” by the emotional part (the limbic system) after a deep spiritual journey of healing. And yet when I...

We Are The Therapeutic Agents of Each Other

I Feel Deeply…

Where’d She Go?

Mercury Retrograde, New Moon in Cancer, and Yes, I’m Really That Woo Woo

Silence = Death

Anger, Fear and Sadness

Defenses, Not Defects

Feeling Limbic

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