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THE PROBLEM WITH RECEIVING (part 1)

THE PROBLEM WITH RECEIVING (part 1)

Years ago, I had a client who came to me looking for a relationship.  In our sessions, she confided that men hit on her quite often, but rarely wanted more than sex.  One afternoon she went clothes shopping with some girlfriends.  One of her...
POLE DANCING

POLE DANCING

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...
LEADING THROUGH LOSS

LEADING THROUGH LOSS

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...
IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE

IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE

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...
PRIORITIZING MATTERS OF THE HEART

PRIORITIZING MATTERS OF THE HEART

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...
All is in the Small

All is in the Small

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...