The mom who remembered
I had known Lisa for nearly three years. There were two counsellors at the school but as luck would have it she had been in my Xgroup (the thing formerly …
One man’s bullshit is another man’s pâté de foie gras
A friend was recommended, pressured in my view, to do a life altering personal change weekend recently. The promise was that you will never be the same person again…just give …
How many worlds do you live in?
“I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke …
96, 97, 98, 99, 100…ready or not, I’m coming…..out!
There have been two people who chose to tell me (separately) that they were gay; in fact it sounded more like a question than a statement. It was the first time each of them …
Life, life is a verb, life is a doing word
I have a friend who did the clinical masters with me, Margaret. After seeing a client for therapy she would very happily trot out of the room nodding her head …
The messages we get in life
It is impossible to not send messages; we are all communicating all the time with or without words, directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, with awareness or without awareness. The …
Repairing the world
Tikkun Olam It is said that the creation of the world was left incomplete, this was done we are told to allow each of us to help complete creation by …
How can you know what the child is if she hasn’t emerged yet?
She told me how a couple, friends of hers; newly married had decided that they were going to raise their children “gender free”. As I understand this, it means that …
You can be whatever you want to be?
I used to run guidance classes at the school with the kids. I was always intent on pushing the issue of knowing yourself. As part of my attempts to “disturb …