Travel is an opportunity to leave some of the known behind to reset our perspective, and embark on a discovery of ourselves and our partner through new eyes.
For You to be Right, I don’t have to be Wrong
Around the time I entered graduate school for psychotherapy (later in life: for the first part of my professional life, I was a park ranger leading treks into the wilderness), I had become interested in relationships and couple’s therapy. Was it growing up in a dysfunctional family or in a part of the world torn […]
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 […]
How to Get it ‘Right’ on Valentine’s Day..
As soon as January rolls in, the shelves in the grocery store fill up with Valentine’s Day ‘goodies’… pink bears, heart shaped chocolate boxes, chocolate roses, flowers, cards… all reminding us NOT to forget our loved ones on Valentine’s Day… Getting it ‘right’ on Valentine’s Day can be tricky.. so ‘How Do I Get it […]
Loneliness: The Silent Epidemic
In an era where so much connection is possible and the world is at our fingertips, where we have virtual reality connections via Skype or face-time or emails or tweets or texts, where all day long we hear pings and notifications and alerts that someone is ‘connecting with us’, research says that we are more lonely than ever. Read more…