Does Achievement Contribute to Our Sense of Self-Worth or Diminish It? Lately, the subject of accomplishment is coming up a lot in my...

Photo credit: Lisa Blair Dear Artist, dear Lover of the Creative Life, Remember that the Creative Spirit is always present offering you...

So many of us are especially suffering and struggling right now whether it's about our shock and horror at the treatment of immigrant...

The recent deaths of two prominent figures in the public eye—Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain—have brought the issue of suicide, once...

Many of us, especially us women-identified folk, knowingly struggle with feeling disempowered in our lives, but we may not have the first...

So, what is a highly sensitive person, anyway? You may have heard the term but not really understood much or anything about what it is....

Here's my fourth video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've...

Here's my third video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've received...

Here's my second video in a new series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." It's done Q&A style—in each video I read a question I've...

Here's my first video in a new video series I'm calling "Therapy Under Five." In each video I'll be reading a question that I've received...

How do we shift from a phase of unity and harmony in our relationships to embracing diversity? How do we be our true selves with another per

One of the many privileges of being a white person in America is that we don’t have to think about the color of our skin. When we go about o

In my therapy practice, one of the things I always keep my eyes and ears open for is empowerment and where my clients are in that ongoing...

Every relationship has two handshakes: one above the table and one below. The first handshake is a conscious agreement between the two...

In my previous posts on grief, titled “The Diversity of Grief,” I discuss the diversity of feeling experiences people go through when in...

To my white American friends who are moved by racial justice: If you haven’t already, let me suggest starting a “must read” list of books...

In Part 1, we learned what it means to have inner diversity, to have various internal figures or parts. I talked about the value of...

In this age where there is such an emphasis on oneness, it’s important, perhaps ironically, that we become aware of the various parts of...

I’m writing this on March 8, 2017, International Women’s Day and the day of the national protest called “A Day Without a Woman.” Today,...

Grief comes in many forms and in many sizes throughout our lives: when a family member (be they human or animal), friend, or community...