I've been thinking about the idea of coping strategies lately. Sometimes in my work with substance abusers, or anyone struggling to deal with their lives, we discuss other ways of coping. Some substance abuse work is often centered around a...
The word substance has my attention lately. There is something both conceptually satisfying about it as well as experientially satisfying. Substantial, filled up, plenty, enough, solid, definitive, complete. How often are we human beings feeling this way or making decisions...
After being lost for periods of time, we sometimes find our way. Or maybe I should say we find "a" way. A path, a route, that at least begins to lead somewhere other than the stuck place in which we...
I've written elsewhere that you have to change to change. Pretty simple, right? But yet we all struggle with this. Even the smallest and most mundane things we would like to change can feel difficult. The thing about change is this:...
Why do we live in a world where honesty is a scarce value? What does honesty mean to people? What are we even talking about when we discuss honesty? The way I am using the word has more to do with...
You are standing on a street corner and wondering how you got there. Nothing looks familiar and anxious energy starts to rise. You aren't even sure when you got lost but you are quite aware at this moment that you...
I've been learning a lot in the past several years. I have delved more deeply than ever into the areas of philosophy, psychology and religion in ways that have been more than stimulating. Much of my exploration has been to...
We are now into the autumn season. It's cooler, it gets dark earlier and things are beginning to die. The fall is a transition period. Nature's process of death and hibernation is not yet fully finished. The fall is a...
As I sit here and stare at the blank page, anxiety builds. There many things to say, too much really, and carving that down into an essay feels hard sometimes. But is that the real reason? Fear is also involved...
Why are you not getting better? Why does it seem like nothing changes for you? Why do you continue to have the same ailments haunting you? Why are you coninuously stuck in the same types of predicaments in your life?...