Practices for Recovering Resilience
Turning Old Paradigms Upside Down and Inside Out
By framing my retirement as leaning into Renaissance (re-birth) I have created an opportunity – even a requirement – to review and challenge old paradigms, old ways of thinking – […]
You are not obligated to complete the work…
Perhaps more awareness from watching the entire The U.S. and the Holocaust series now streaming on PBS. Perhaps more awareness from many prayers and blessings sent by Jewish friends for […]
The U.S. and the Holocaust
In my 30 years of helping psychotherapy clients recover and strengthen their resilience, I focused on individuals coping with the challenges of loss and the realities of traumatic disasters. Appropriate, […]
Coming to Calm before the Conversation
My colleague Dorie Rosenberg shared this guided visualization with a group of psychotherapists considering retiring (or already have, as I already have). If I had known of it while still […]
Let in Beauty, Medicine for the Suffering
The poet Mark Nepo shared this story in his recent seminar on Fear, Pain, and Grief. To me, it embodies the most essential qualities of resilience. Mark is a long-time […]
Moving Up the Scale: Ennui, Entertainment, Education, Exploration, Enlightenment
I’ve guided how I engage with life by this scale of 5 E’s: ennui, entertainment, education, exploration, enlightenment – for many years now. Ennui: the boredom, the could-care-less, the resignation […]
The Draining Away of Mind Pollution
By day three of my kayaking the Inland Passage in Alaska (see The Perspective of Long, Deep Time) I could not only feel the stress drain away from my body. […]
Labor Day – Honoring the True Goodness of Hard Work
Labor Day was a holiday celebrated in my family as an actual day to remember and respect the legacy of hard work that had allowed my immigrant grandparents to gain […]
The Perspective of Long, Deep Time
I’ve just returned from an 8-day Wilderness Travel trip kayaking and bushwhacking through Glacier Bay and the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A trip booked originally in August 2019 from […]
Heroic Listening
I was struck by the juxtaposition of these two quotes this week, the first from Mark Nepo’s webinar series on Fear, Pain, and Grief: Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or […]