What If?

What If?

by | Feb 20, 2023 | #Psyche&Soul

Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries once said, “We imagine a world with no prisons and then we create that world.” I love that quote. I’ve repeated it to other people and the response is almost always the same—”Wouldn’t that be nice, but it will never...
It Doesn’t Have to be This Way

It Doesn’t Have to be This Way

by | Feb 18, 2023 | #Psyche&Soul

It took me decades to begin remembering childhood abuse. One of the first memories came in a drawing I made in a workshop of me lying on my back and a scream coming out of my mouth. It was a shocking picture, and I knew there was a real scream there, the way you just...
Beyond Expectation

Beyond Expectation

by | Feb 18, 2023 | #Psyche&Soul

Two of my most profound experiences as a therapist were with people who I thought at the outset were the least likely to be in therapy at all. One was a man whose wife was about to leave him because she was starving for more emotional connection, and he was desperate...

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