Shame Fractures The Soul!

I had an amazing session this week with a client who was just beginning to see, and talk about, something people all over the world are plagued with every single day!  I see it as the source of addiction.  John Bradshaw called it the “fracture of the soul”. Imagine a...

How Do You Seek Relief?

How do you seek relief when you are in emotional pain?  We all have our “go to” methods that we use to give ourselves immediate relief. . . food, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, sex, shopping, porn, isolating ourselves, controlling others, defensiveness, complaining,...

Where Do You Invest Your Gold?

If you won the lottery tomorrow, what would you do with the money?  Would you spend it lavishly and wastefully?  Or would you invest it in something that will protect it and help it to grow so you can enjoy it for a long time to come? You have something like those...

The Happiness Illusion

Does happiness seem to constantly be slipping through your fingers?  Does it seem like the people in your life just won’t cooperate so that you can be happy?  Do you have a chronic feeling of unhappiness, like an itch that can never be scratched?  Does it sometimes...