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Touched
Michael (a highly fictionalized/conglomerate but all too real client) was scared as hell and little more than a month away from aging out of the group home he had lived in. At the close of the session...
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The Myth of the Good Client
So you want to be the best, most gratifying client ever? You want to insure that your therapist adores you, always looks forward to your sessions, gets as much out of working with you as you get from...
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The Wrong Road
“So what do you think is the right thing to do?” “So should I leave him?” “Should I take the job?” “So are you saying I should tell my mother this? There is one, simple, correct therapeutic answer to...
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Honored
This week I dreamed that I opened the front door to a surprise visitor. An older man arrived, whose name I did not know, and who I referred to, in my mind, as the Honored Guest. I began to cook a meal...
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Balancing Act
Objects fly through the air, stars wheel through the universe. All fall eventually. If we become obsessed with definitively mastering the decline, we are lost. If we achieve peace within the intervals...
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The Seed
To see things in the seed, that is genius – Lao Tzu At the initial consultation with any new case, I search for the seeds. The small, encapsulated point of contact that is filled with all the potential...
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Skin Deep
Because skin is so nuanced in its response to environmental circumstances and psychic fields it serves as a barometer for physical and psychological well-being. ~ The Book of Symbols – The Archive for...
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Looking Back
Death will not part us again, nearer to heaven than ten thousand ancestors who dream of me… ~ Rickie Lee Jones The ancestors possess this in-between quality of the flown soul and the hovering presence...
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The Boy Who Would Not Stop For Death
I’ve searched for the hard copy everywhere. A twenty paged paper typed double space, almost exactly twenty years ago, before personal computers were a household or academic necessity. It must be in the...
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This is What Happened
Someone asked me to write this. Sort of. They asked me if I could state, in tangible terms, the kinds of healing that I have seen take place in my work as a therapist. And I can’t. Because it didn’t...
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