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Crossing Paths – Where Buddhism, Yoga and Mental Health meet
I will always be grateful to one of my clients who brought me into the realm of Buddhist teachings. Although I had formally studied Buddhism in college, my spiritual studies have been primarily...
Enmeshment and the Emotional Immune System
When someone comes to us and wants us to make them feel better, it can confuse our immune doorways, (and theirs). If they are not first orienting towards the capacity of their own hearts, they can...
Gossip, Sharing, Commiserating
What’s the difference between gossiping, sharing, and commiserating? They all feel different. With gossip there is always a pull, an urge, a compulsion, telling someone else something about another...
Positive Partnering
What if we changed our paradigm from “Mind over Matter” to “Mind + Matter”? If we really lived Mind + Body, in a vision of positive partnering? We are in the middle of shifting our language and...
Safety First
Before we can change anything about ourselves, it can be helpful for our logical minds to learn about itself, to understand a bit about how our human nervous system works so we understand patterns...
Respect (and Love)
There is a meditation teacher who always begins her talks, “With great respect and love…” Why respect? A declaration of respect from a teacher to students, from an authority to ‘subordinates’? That...
Lost in a Trauma Bond
Friends don’t let friends commiserate. Don’t get pulled into commiseration, lost in the victimhood of a ‘trauma bond superstorm’. Commiseration is not support. Commiseration is agreeing with another...
Self-Care
Someone wrote to me this morning: "Triggered again! After years in recovery, we read an excerpt from the Big Book, and when we came to the sentence that states, 'addicts are undisciplined', I took...