What is Trauma? Trauma is any experience that overwhelms our normal coping mechanisms. Some examples of trauma include: parental...
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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings we are all struggling to find a solution to...
Does self-hate create insanity? I'd argue yes, to varying degrees. Most of us are dealing with what I'd call an average amount of self-hate. It's manageable, and tends to show up as dysfunctional relationships, addictions, depression, anxiety, and a whole lot of other ways of suffering. When self-hate gets to be too much, and it can no longer be managed internally, it gets projected out on to others. Sometimes it looks like yelling- sometimes like hitting, and sometimes, like killing.
We all want to be confident. Yet, at times confidence alludes us all. Confidence is tied to our relationship with our emotions. Confidence is the ability to: 1) feel a wide range of emotions 2) be compassionate towards yourself regardless of your emotions 3) express yourself in a skillful way that honors one’s experience as well as the other person’s experience – aka- be compassionate towards others.
My horse Hermano died on March 2nd, 2012. Here are the 3 most important things he taught me: 1)...
“You have to feel to heal.” ~ Julia Butterfly Hill Most of us have bought into the notion that...
Through the practice of mediation, we are able to create a gap between our thoughts and our behavior. By...
Read about parenting wtihout praise or punishment.
One of the hardest things for people to hear is, “If you are not compassionate with yourself, your ability...