Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks

Holidays can be a wonderful time to reconnect with others and with ourselves. It can be a time of reflection and rejuvenation. A time of love and sharing. But holidays can also be incredibly stressful as we all know too well. With the added responsibilities and...

Not as Bad as it Seems

Most of us grew up hearing many messages from our families, school teachers or other kids that suggested we had a lot we should feel bad about; we heard about everything we did wrong and very little about what we did right. Our school work was covered with marks that...

Singing Our Own Songs

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau   “Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.” Oliver Wendell Holmes   Recently, a therapy client referenced Henry David Thoreau’s quote about men who live in “quiet...