Resilience Grit, Courage, Vulnerabi

Oct 231 min read

124. My little world & your little world

Creating your own beautiful and orderly life.

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Apr 61 min read

118. Calm > Chaos

I kinda dig chaos. It's a pattern. And it's a pattern that I have come to accept and appreciate about being me. As I continue to meet new...

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Nov 14, 20231 min read

93. Beauty & Complication

A little less than a year ago I started a private therapy practice. On my website, I describe what I do by saying that I help people...

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Oct 26, 20231 min read

89. It isn't a trip if you don't let lost

When something isn't serving you, start something new. If you don't like how you feel, what are you willing to do to feel differently? I...

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Sep 24, 20232 min read

88. I hope you are [routinely] awesome

As I work with people of all ages in my therapy practice, I often talk about the sacredness of routines. Routines are holy and...

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Sep 2, 20231 min read

83. You are now a therapist

My school clients can't exactly fire me, and my private therapy clients haven't fired me yet for my drawings. Let's hope this trend...

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Aug 23, 20232 min read

80. Training my boomerang heart

For a living I help people get out of their own way. There is just one tiny problem with this. It can be hard for me to get out of my own...

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Jul 7, 20232 min read

73. Light duty living (again)

After a hundred-mile walk in the beautiful mountains and deserts of northern New Mexico, I find myself on a light duty living assignment...

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May 21, 20231 min read

65. Finding the edge

Find the edge of comfort. Hang out there for awhile. You may like it. Need words for your walls? >> Click here

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Feb 22, 20231 min read

52. Gross Adulting Words

There are a lot of counseling theories that focus on these gross #adulting words: choice, freedom and responsibility. The words are great...

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Jan 27, 20231 min read

45. The mountains in our mind

I have tried to come up with all sorts of metaphors for what may be standing in the way of people wanting or being able to change....

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Jan 13, 20231 min read

42. The human defrag

It is official — after doing two jobs for 90 days and a new job for 60 days, I am still in defrag mode. I feel like an oddly shaped hard...

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Jan 1, 20231 min read

39. Sourdough Sundays

I have a longstanding and loving history with this blessed condition called body dysmorphia. She is like an evil friend that continues to...

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Sep 29, 20221 min read

9. We are all weird.

I am always trying to come up with new conversation starters. This is one of my new favorites. Please use at your own discretion. Weird &...

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Sep 11, 20221 min read

2. Wild Beast

A couple of years ago, I began to think and write about the wilderness and the wildness in each of us. This was prompted by the death of...

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