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ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE?

ARE YOU HIGHLY SENSITIVE?

Until 2016 I did not know I there was a nomenclature to my lived experience. I believed myself to be different, odd, out of step. In the ’90’s research on high sensitivity as an innate trait was made mainstream by Dr. Elaine Aron, determining that 20% of...
CREATING LOVE FOR THE LONGTERM

CREATING LOVE FOR THE LONGTERM

Sometimes, without any awareness of it, we move into this space in our relationships and our lives that is unrecognizable. In depth psychology, this place is referred to this as the Borderlands – it is that “in-between,” that liminal place where one...
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR ROADMAP TO LOVE?

HAVE YOU LOST YOUR ROADMAP TO LOVE?

In another lifetime I used to feel victim to the vagaries of Love, to the way it could sweep me up with as much ease and detachment as it could pummel me against the raggedness of cliffs, leaving me torn, open, gasping for air. I did not understand the Art of Love,...
YOUR FEAR MAKES FOR STRONGER LOVE

YOUR FEAR MAKES FOR STRONGER LOVE

A “fata morgana” (the Italian translation of Morgan Le Fay, the fairy shape-shifting half-sister of King Arthur) is a mirage. It’s an optical illusion that results from temperature inversion. It’s the illusion that objects in your horizon...
YOU’VE GOT YOUR RELATIONSHIP LENS ON BACKWARD

YOU’VE GOT YOUR RELATIONSHIP LENS ON BACKWARD

I want I choose I claim I am Each of these statements indicate where you are in process and in #relationship to your desire. “I want” implies a lack, the absence for a thing wanted.  You don’t have it yet. “I choose” is a selection after consideration, a decision...