Tag: Spirit

Celebrating true Christmas

December 24, 2012 | 10 comments

Christmas Eve is here. Are you ready? [It’s a trick question.] Of course you’re ready! Christmas is much more than eating and drinking, opening presents and being with people, or feeling badly because there are no presents to open or people

Changing the past

September 19, 2012 | 14 comments

Now here is an arresting truth to consider that one of my patients emailed me recently:      “If I change my thoughts about my past,      I change my experience of the past.” Who said you can’t change

Adjusting to changing circumstances

June 22, 2012 | 10 comments

There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today.” So she did and she had

Etch the right sketch

June 4, 2012 | 6 comments

Have you ever played with an Etch-A-Sketch®?  I did when I was a kid. Image from How Stuff Works It was very liberating for bumbling, yet aspiring artists, because whenever a mistake was made, one could shake the apparatus, erase the

No better place to be

May 15, 2012 | 1 comment

Do you ever make a list of ways your life could be improved? Items like:             If I only had a different job…             If I lived in a different city…             If I made more money…             If I