The Celebrity Therapist

As some of you may already know if you read my blog or facebook, I have going thru a bit of a crises in my life.  Someone I love has relapsed and I am learning that my supporting someone who they love in a relapse is way different than when it is someone you know…

 Many of the exercises in my book The Law of Sobriety, begin with sitting quietly for a few minutes and just being still and breathing. Why is this so important? Because you have to step out of your everyday life, quiet all the chatter in your head and open yourself up to the honest, wise…

As I walk this road of recovery with my loved one, I need to remind myself constantly to remember two very important words, “forgiveness” and”compassion”.  I discussed compassion yesterday and today compassion. Forgiveness is a key component of my book, the  law of Sobriety, but is also one of the most difficult things to do,…

If you read the first paragraph of my blog yesterday I shared that someone I love has relapsed.  When someone close to you relapses you go thru many of the stages of loss similar to the stages of grief when someone dies.  You go thru anger, depression, bargaining (where you try to make sense out…

This week was challenging for me to say the least.  Someone I love dearly entered rehab and my mom had a stroke and lost eye sight in one of her eyes.  These were the biggies.  The less challenging issues were I did my first teleseminar and into it about 5 minutes, the power went out…

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Most of us believe, in theory, that we should make efforts to take better care of ourselves, through better eating, more exercise, or working our recovery programs. But we can fall into the trap of forgetting to engage or these behaviors.  I certainly promote self-care to my psychotherapy and life coaching clients on a regular…

A former professor of mine used to say, “What you see depends on where you look”. She was speaking, of course, about the significance of perspective. I suppose it was her adaptation of the philosopher Epictetus’ statement that “Men are not disturbed by things, but by the view which they take of them”.   My…

Manifesting Tip a Day. According to Shiv Khera, author of You Can Win, failures most often occur for one of the following seven reasons: Lack of persistence. More people fail not because they lack knowledge or talent, but just because they quit. It is important to remember two words: persistence and resistance. Persist in what…

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