by Joelle | Apr 20, 2023 | Blog
It is customary for clients who seek out my relationship coaching support to have either thin boundaries with others (difficulty saying no) or overcompensate with thick boundaries (avoiding intimacy and close relationships). The dominant culture trains us to see...
by Joelle | Apr 9, 2023 | Blog
Over the last year, I’ve experienced several family losses. Interestingly, many in my circles are having similar experiences and yet relationship grief is not dinner conversation. It is not a topic we are culturally taught to connect over, at the water fountain, over...
by Joelle | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
When my son was a teenager, we visited the Groeninge Museum in Bruges. There he was introduced to the art Hieronymus Bosch. Intrigued by the images of hell and damnation, he asked me to buy him a postcard of the Last Judgement. In three gory panels, it depicts God...
by Joelle | Mar 26, 2023 | Blog
I’m off to the UK today for my aunt’s funeral. This is on the heels of unexpectedly losing my Father, her only sibling, in August and placing both my parents in a nursing home last April. My mother is no longer compos mentis so that, too, feels a...
by Joelle | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog
It’s March. And a Full Moon. This time should mark the beginning of the year. And yet, in 45 BC Julius Caesar implemented the “Julian calendar” moving it from March 1st to January 1st. We’ve been stuck celebrating beginnings in the dead of winter when we naturally...
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