It seems that one thing most of us have in common is our desire to avoid pain. I see this with clients who so desperately want to change or heal while also desiring to avoid the extremely difficult work of unpacking and sorting through past pains and trauma. I see this with friends as they have … Continue reading How We Relate to Pain
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Letting Balls Drop
The practice of letting balls fall to the floor gives us life amid the juggling.
People Like Yourself
In her 2010 book The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown writes, "To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards." The book, … Continue reading People Like Yourself
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
This Christmas, while singing carols, this line stood out to me in a new and unusual manner. "The hopes and fears of all the years..." And while having heard it and sang it all the years of my life, it struck me with it's opposing nature as the words escaped my lips. How can two seemingly … Continue reading The Hopes and Fears of All the Years
Holding Expectations with Open Hands
It's the holiday season. A time of year that can bring with it an array of emotions and memories, hopes and disappointments, joys and longings. It can be hard to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, perhaps for the first time without a loved one lost over the past year to the battles of life. And it's … Continue reading Holding Expectations with Open Hands
Four Seeds Counseling 