Last Sunday was a national day of recognizing the sacrifices, commitment, unconditional love, and our relationship with our Mom. Unless your like me and many of the people I work with...someone who doesn’t have a relationship with their mother...either by choice or death. Then it becomes a day of remembering the how and why you […]
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post on my anonymous blog on the difficulty of ending a therapeutic relationship. I wrote it because a client I had been working with at the time was moving out of state. We had been working together for over a year. While she made significant progress […]
It’s now been 2 1/2 weeks since I left CJ. We’ve driven across the country, spent 5 days in Texas, almost got a new dog, and have been in Clearwater Beach, Florida for 10 days. (That's my husband trying to catch a stray that was in the middle of the highway. After trying to contact […]
I’m sitting at Starbucks on Friday morning wondering what the hell (I hope the language doesn't offend anyone, I actually held back a little 😉 ) I’m doing. I just came from my office after meeting someone to pick up some of my furniture. After she left I went back to the space where I […]
It is with a heavy heart and very mixed emotions, I have made the decision to take a hiatus from Courageous Journeys. At least from doing in-person, ongoing therapy. Putting that in writing I find myself experiencing the heaviness (hmm, I wonder if that's where that expression heavy heart comes from) and pressure in my […]
It’s hard to believe it’s Thanksgiving already…it means I’ve been in Arizona for a year. It really is true…the older you get the more quickly time seems to go by 🙂 . In many ways it feels like it’s been much longer since I left my practice in Illinois. In other ways, when I think […]