by dmackinnon | Jun 23, 2021 | Healing Choices, Thought Work
Not long ago, a client told me he’s recently been going over things that happened in the past—things he wasn’t proud of, but things he’d come to terms with. “I thought I had dealt with all that stuff,” he said, “but lately I just keep going over them. I can’t seem to...
by dmackinnon | Dec 19, 2019 | Healing Choices
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...
by dmackinnon | Nov 21, 2019 | Healing Choices
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...
by dmackinnon | Dec 8, 2016 | Healing Choices, Process
“If you long for the world to be a saner, more loving place, please be advised that you must start inside. Care for your sick, anxious, exhausted self as lovingly as you want to care for every suffering thing.” –Martha Beck, Like Ten Thousand Knives When All You...
