Reduce Stress with Plants Modern research confirms what was local knowledge thousands of years ago. Spending time with plants can help you reduce your stress.  The Role of Horticulture in Human...

Self-Reflection: A Way to Discover Gifts When facing difficult challenges, it can be difficult to find resources that will help. In my most recent podcast, I discussed several tools that can be used...

Tap Your Powers as You Age As you age, you can continue to tap your powers by accepting who you are as you are. What you can do is take a moment before jumping into the day to assess your strengths...

After surviving traumatic situations, we stay stuck in the muck of fears. In a state of anxiety,  we get hooked by our own emotions and the emotions of others. We feel as though we cannot move, sometimes not even breathe in the presence of others.

Self Healing Healing from challenges such as anxiety, trauma, and grief can be enhanced with the practice of attention. Often times we just react to our emotions instead of taking a moment to decide...

Many people get frozen by trauma. It reappears in various ways and often is re-lived over and over again in dreams. Individuals often carry around the memories and are triggered to respond as they...

Fear Can Be An Obstacle or A Resource Fear can be a destructive emotion when it causes us to freeze or get so flustered we feel lost. As Takehisa Kora explains it in his How to Live Well: Secrets of...

CREATE A NEW MESSAGE FOR YOURSELF My therapy clients struggling with abuse, whether sexual or emotional, initially seem to listen to external voices.  It is not uncommon for women and men sexually...

How often do we find ourselves dwelling on past events or mistakes we’ve made? The use of the term dwelling indicates that this is where we reside. When reflections become ruminations that carry us...