Can we celebrate the holidays with out the stress? A client this week was telling me how she is stressed about the upcoming holidays and how she misses last year’s holiday season. She described how in the midst of the pandemic, her family stayed home and it was intimate and private. There was nowhere to […]
Are You S.A.D.?
For those of you who do not live in our area, the concept of living with the constant fear of fire danger and evacuation may sound unreasonable. But for us here in California, it is now the new normal, not thought of in terms if, but when. We spend the summer and fall with go […]
A Leap of Faith
Some of my most touching moments as a therapist are when clients are faced with a leap of faith, or what I sometimes call the farthest distance we can travel. How do we set on a life journey when we do not know where it will lead? That question can at times make us question […]
Hold Me Tight® Couples Retreat
Hold Me Tight® Couples Workshop Nevada City, California, January 29-30, 2022We Invite and Welcome all Couples! Dear readers, colleagues, and friends, Many of you have been asking and waiting for our Hold Me Tight® couples workshops to reopen. Well, our first is finally here (and in person). The pandemic has been a long time of uncertainty, fear, […]
Walking the walk in darkness
To My Dearest Readers, It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince This week, I was honored to officiate the marriage of a couple whom I have worked with in my therapy practice. I helped a couple […]
Just what I needed
A few weeks ago, around the beginning of the year, my iPhone stopped working… It was the end of a day with many other stresses, but also the end of the year 2020 that was a very difficult and challenging year for all of us. It was also post an election that was tense and […]