For those journeying through depression or grief, anhedonia is a pleasure thief. The wild paradox is that in slowing down to the pace of a single moment, however painful, we can access PRESENCE. From there, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to pleasure.   When I met Joshua, he was in the midst …

In addition to the not insignificant stress of keeping a business alive in 2020, caring for grandchildren and recovering from major surgery, Madeleine said she was mostly ok. Sincerely, genuinely ok.   The only clouds threatening her inner sky were flurries of not good enough that showed up from time to time. If you journey with anxiety …

Anxious times. – The very human tendency to engage in mental chatter doesn’t help. One tiny thought gets a little sunlight and it’s off to the races with all manner of distorted thinking, like kudzu on fertile ground. – One of the real gifts of spending more than 35 years working with folks who journey …

Insight plays an important role in most psychotherapy. I am pretty solid in my belief that the most useful #Insights are the ones that arise following integration. – Insight does not produce change. Insight follows the neutralization of charged energy. The imposition of insight when there is still charge does little except produce more charge, generally in …

Most people engage in self-limiting cognitive activity in one form or another, to one degree or another. – Catastrophic thinking is a kind of self-limiting cognitive activity. It distorts our experience and perspective. And for those who journey with a mood disorder, this is no small thing. – Catastrophic thinking is like worry on steroids, …