So how have you been? Unless you're an essential worker during this COVID-19 crisis, I think it's safe to assume that you are spending a...

Does anyone here bite their fingernails? Ok, I’ll admit, I do. I bite my nails. It’s not something I’m proud of. But I’d bet my last meditation cushion that most of you do this too sometimes. I also pick at my fingers when I’m concentrating on something or lost in thought. And if you know me well enough, you also know it got me thinking. Why do we do this? I pondered this a bit (probably while picking my nails) and then a picture appeared in my mind of many of my trauma patie

Hey. Hey you! Hey, wake up! Open your sweet eyes…Time to wake up. Come on, time to start your life! Reluctantly, you open one eye but...

I’m writing this thousands of miles above the earth. Sitting in an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean with nowhere to go. Like, trapped, in other words. Sitting duck, so to speak. It’s kind of freaky, to be honest. My daughter is two seats next to me and has grown increasingly terrified of flying. I held her hand during take off, at every bit of turbulence I explain that it’s just a bump in the road. And even while we were in the airport, I instructed her to focus on her brea

So, I’m weird. You might have gathered that from the title of this post, or maybe you already knew that. But yes, I am weird. Reallllly weird. Ok, not like the kind of weird where you collect decapitated Barbies or various hairballs coughed up from different cat breeds. But just the kind of weird that makes a little space between me and everyone else. You know that feeling? Maybe it is partly my introvertedness, or my overexcitabilities, but I’m just sayin’. Yesterday I went

I’ve been thinking about something today. Do kids care if your kitchen drawers are organized? What. That IS what I’ve been thinking about. Haven’t you ever wondered? Ok, maybe it’s just me. But seriously. Do they care at all if the drawers are perfectly neat? Do adults wind up in psychotherapy mentioning how they cannot form meaningful relationships because their mother didn't cook three warm meals a day when they were kids, or, say…scrub the bathtub with bleach and a tooth

Hi there. Oh, I'm sorry! You don't remember me? You know, that blogger? The one about Mindfulness in today's world. Still nothing? The...

I curled up this morning with my six-year old son, who had woken up scared in the middle of the night, and was now in my bed with me,...

Once upon a time, new neighbors moved into our apartment complex. It was a nice younger couple with a child the same age as my child. I...

Do you have dreams? Do you have goals? Do you ever talk yourself out of going for it? I get it. It’s so easy to think up all kinds of...