Blog: Healing Choices
This blog focuses on the small moments that make a good day into a bad day, or a terrible day into a gift of a day. It’s my belief that developing awareness in these small moments is the practice we need to be able to navigate all the ups and downs of life, from loss and grief to love, peace, and joy.
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Am I Only a Doctor? In a Word: No
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Am I Only a Doctor? In a Word: No
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Am I Only a Doctor? In a Word: No
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Am I Only a Doctor? In a Word: No
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Healing Choices
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Am I Only a Doctor? In a Word: No
How Are You Different?
It’s easy to feel that the days are a grind and nothing really changes. But here we are at the end of the year—and the end of a decade. If you take a look back, you can see that you’ve changed. Maybe your life isn’t that different from what it was a year ago, but my...
Self-Pity is Not Self-Compassion
I recently spoke to a group about self-compassion. I’ve spoken on this topic before, but this time I talked about the two sides of self-compassion, based on the most recent work of Dr. Kristin Neff, a researcher who has been studying compassion for years. One of the...
Mistakes are Made…and that’s Okay
I grew up believing I should never make a mistake. That there was something wrong with me when I did make a mistake, as of course I did, all the time! The result of my belief was that I felt terrible every time I made a mistake. Which means, I felt terrible all the...
Creators Beat Victims Any Day
Lately I’ve been talking a lot about the Karpman Drama Triangle. Dr. Steven Karpman, a psychologist, developed the concept as a way of describing a dysfunctional way of dealing with conflict. It’s also been called the “victim consciousness” in other books. Recognizing...