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...
by Joelle | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog
I stayed with my ex-husband for 16 years and my ex-boyfriend for 8. I taught K-12, undergraduate and graduate students for 32 years. I’ve had a coaching business for the last 12. There comes a moment where one decides to stay with it and persist and another moment...
by Joelle | Mar 5, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Joelle | Feb 10, 2023 | Blog
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...
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