Bagels & Blessings
He looked so deeply into my eyes that he seemed to take hold of me. So moved was I by his gaze that his eyes could have been the eyes of The One.
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Category: Healing
ALL THE LIGHT THE WORLD CAN HOLD
There isn’t anyone to whom this story doesn’t belong. We’ve all been touched by violence, betrayal, or intergenerational wounding. It’s built into the scaffolding of the old world that’s dying all around us. We’re at the transmutation point now. How are we going to act amidst the suffering of our world?
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Togetherness—not Otherness—a Remedy for Global Healing
Human beings have an infinite capacity to be kind, generous, and supportive of one another. When...
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The Uses Of Water
My first AA job forty years ago was to make coffee, hauling plastic pitchers of water to the...
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Poetry As Medicine
Poetry has gracefully braided two important aspects of my work as a psychotherapist – mindfulness and grief. There is a presence in poems that invites us to pay attention, to stop, breathe, focus. It is there that we can be mindful of the life we are living,
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.