Here it is:  lately I suck. I feel angry and cranky, and moody. I’m coming off a very low dose of an anti-depressant. I’m not sure when I stopped needing this anti-depressant; I’ve been on it for years and was prescribed it for irritability.  I do know that I have a part that is screaming at […]

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’m in a “lazy” stage. It seems my pattern is to take a big leap, then pull back a bit from life. If you read my last blog, you know my big leap was that I was planning to take a trip by myself in November, and that […]

Decisions:  The subject seems to be coming up quite a bit in my therapy sessions recently. My clients are facing a multitude of really big things: ending marriage, job changes, moving, financial problems, etc. My advice never wavers: don‘t make any decision based on a negative emotion like fear, guilt, shame or resentment. My client’s response is […]

I went back to school later later in life. Not Rodney Dangerfield late, but there were nineteen years between graduating with my Bachelors and obtaining my Masters. As you can imagine, my sense of pride was beaming out of my body. I remember one day when I ran into my neighbor and he asked what I was […]