When Your Life Gets Hectic How Do You Bring Back Peace and Joy?

I’m in one of those phases where I’m traveling a lot. The first two weeks of January I went to Kansas City and Lawrence then I had a bit of a break. I went to a conference in Manhattan on February 10th and 11th, and it feels like I’ve been on the road ever since....

Don’t Let Exhaustion and Overwhelm Run Your Life

Is your life driven by chaos? Do you get exhausted by overwhelm? Several years ago, I went into my therapist’s office. It was a little over a year into Mike’s illness. When he asked how I was doing I told him I was terrified and exhausted. However, as I do, I was...

Horses, Gestalt, and Grief

As I sit here with the dog I wonder about the timing of life. Timing can be magical and divine. Or not. There are times when the world seems to be throwing everything at me at once. The catastrophes keep coming one after another. Then it calms down for a moment. I had...

There May Be Reasons From Childhood Keeping You Stuck

When you were a kid did you have monsters under your bed? Was there something that scared you after the lights went out? When my parents built their house, it was on the edge of town in what had been a pasture. It was big and had large high windows. In Kansas, the...