Even as our collective hearts break with the painful recognition of just how deeply our nation is wounded dawns, I’m sitting….

One of the things that I’ve appreciated about our local Mental Health Professionals FB group is the lengthy honest introductions. So when I took up the clinical spotlight last week, I let myself self stretch out a little bit.

As we continue this exploration of how to talk about the spiritual nature of this work, I hope y’all will chime in with your understanding and experiences.

Inspired by The Observer’s recent article, “Are you really the ‘real’ you?”, I have a few thoughts of my own to share….If we drop the story, drop the name, drop the ideas of who we think we are, who’s there?

This is one of the most iconic evocative photos I’ve ever seen. It provokes the shadow like nothing else in my recent history.