Practices for Recovering Resilience
The Original Map of Resilience
Transitioning into retirement means reading many good new books and re-connecting with many good old friends. It also means tackling the de-cluttering postponed for at least five years while I […]
Competent, Efficient, Creative, Contributory
Besides letting go of the roles that were the pillars of my professional life – working with clients as a psychotherapist in a 30-year clinical practice, teaching the neuroscience of […]
Retirement: Dancing with Doing-Living-Being
A colleague sent me a card for my retirement: “Congratulations on your new office furniture!” With an image of a hammock in the back yard. I do have a chaise […]
Growing Beyond the Loneliness
A client recommended Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist’s Journey through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection by Stephanie Cacioppo, published April 2022. I read it the week I […]
It Really Was This Beautiful
I formally brought my career/calling as a psychotherapist/trainer to a poignant closure by teaching at the end of June at the Cape Cod Institute. And I formally celebrated the transition […]
Finding the Goldilocks Spot
As you read this, I will be celebrating my (almost) 75th birthday by attempting to hike to the top of Mt. Lassen (10,500 feet). When I climbed the peak last […]
The Land of In-Between
“Nauset” means “a place between.” The indigenous Nauset lived on the salt marshes of Cape Cod for hundreds of years before the Pilgrims “discovered” the Cape and displaced the native […]
The Paradox of Fourth of July
Today is the Fourth of July, celebrated as Independence Day in the United States. Such a mixed bag. Celebrating the founding of a new nation declaring to the world that […]
To Bless the Space Between Us
Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness has been the banner of this e-newsletter from the very beginning. And Conscious, Compassionate Connection the path to that healing and awakening from […]
The Resilience and Well-Being of Ordinariness
Whenever I mention the title of Ron Siegel’s new book, The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary, folks respond, “Oh, I LIKE that!.” Perhaps the relief, the permission, to get off […]