Someone cares
When I was a teenager, if I’d been rejected by a friend, I’d feel that no one in the world cared about me. Or, if someone did care about me, it would still feel as if no one cared, because the person I wanted to…
The walls we build
A good friend of mine had a falling out with her sister a number of years ago. Her sister dealt with it by ghosting my friend. Finally my friend decided to reach out explicitly to reconcile – after all, they were both getting older, and…
Shifting focus
If there’s one thing that never changes, it’s change itself – everything changes, all the time. I may be alone this, but I tend to cling to what I have – even clothes that are so old and full of mending I wouldn’t give them…
Seeing Red
When something is unfair or unjust, I get angry. It lasts as long as it takes for me to do what I can about the injustice. When I’m enraged, it’s a different story. Most often, while the rage is pointed outward, it mostly has to…
If you knew you were worthy
A short while ago I wrote about feeling unworthy. This week I want to look at what life might be like when we shake off that undeserved mantle of unworthiness, and feel our own real worth. There’s an imagination exercise I do with new clients…
Groundhog Day Revisited
In case you haven’t noticed … life has taken on a déjà vu quality – seemingly repeating itself over and over, and over. There’s a movie – Groundhog Day – starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, that is about, in a way, what we’re currently…