Relationship Skills
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 […]
Deepening Resilience in Difficult Times
I’m teaching my third full-length, in-person training this spring (after a pandemic-hiatus of three years) at the Cape Cod Institute next week, focusing as always on the importance of reaching […]
Stretching Across What Separates Us
I’ve known my neighbor’s boys, Robbie and Nico, since they were born. Robbie now 4, Nico now 2. Before the restrictions of sheltering in place for the pandemic, Robbie especially […]
Free Guided Practice – Deep Listening Leads to Conscious, Compassionate Connection
Just as resilience is needed now more than ever in these troubled and troubling times, deep listening – honoring, accepting, understanding, empathy, compassion, sometimes forgiveness – is needed now more […]
A Radical Way to Practice Compassion
Tara Brach, one of the most beloved meditation teachers in the world, has just released her newest book Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and the World with the Practice […]
Applying R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) When Blaming Others
When client after client comes into my office sharing – exclaiming – the transformative benefit they have received from Tara Brach’s practice of R.A.I.N. (see below) I pay attention and […]
Creating the Circle of Support You Need – Anytime You Need It
I really experienced the value of the exercise below, Creating a Circle of Support, at a time when I needed it the most. Ten years ago I chose to have […]
Make Sure Good Friends Are Near
Back in my folk dance days, I loved dancing with friends to this song: We live out our lives, they say all alone, From the day we arrive till it’s […]
The Role of Kvetching/Complaining in Resilience
After peaceful, playful travel over the winter holidays, I returned home to a previously (and naively) scheduled complete electrical rewiring of my home. Necessary and timely, but I did not […]
Holding the Messes of Life with Ease and Balance
As we learned in this interview with Michelle Gale, connecting with others in friendship and community helps us recover the emotional equilibrium that supports our resilience. Here’s an exercise […]