Jan 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
A healthy view of self is a necessary building block to a quality life. How do you develop that view? Certainly, our life expression helps develop our self esteem as does our personality structure. The whole structure versus nurture dynamic. But, for the purposes of...
Dec 26, 2023 | Holiday, Individual Counseling
It is two days past the winter solstice. (I’m writing now b/c I’m an introvert & I need time to process before I speak.) I went outside the morning of 12/21/23 to mediate as this is a practice of mine in the solstice & equinox. My intent during this practice...
Nov 28, 2023 | Child & Teen Counseling, Individual Counseling, Teen Counseling
“I take an out of the way drive in and around the north side of town where the smoke from hell’s exhaust pipe lingers above the cheap rent in the dark night.” These are the words that still ring in my soul from my time in Marshalltown, Iowa. 25 years later, I still...
Nov 20, 2023 | Individual Counseling, Teen Counseling
November is the month to reach out to your lost connections, or even to the folks that you are confident know that you are present in their lives. We have darker days ahead and the cold of winter is coming. Men, how often do we validate one another? How often do we...
Nov 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
It takes a therapist willing to disclose to give you a perspective on the experiences that have shaped them and how it has influenced their professional lens. Ultimately, a marker of my childhood experiences that influenced my journey to this stage of my life as a...