I write poems to lead me to the destination which I don’t know
As often happens, as I write a poem the it is unknown to me where it will lead me: here my anger turns to the grace of understanding and compassion.
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Absolutely Loving Doing the Radix Therapy Work I Do
I am working a very busy Radix practice, so my time away from my work is precious and I only want to do what is refreshing, rewarding and relaxing (the new three R’s! ). We love to hike, watch good movies, sit outside and watch the sunset; we love to[…]
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What we resist persists!
It is a powerful axiom that what we resist we have the paradoxical response of actually giving the resistance more strength, not less as we may have hoped. The old observation to try to not think about pink elephants and, of course, the elephant appears in our mind’s eye-pink and[…]
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Different Types of Love
I am putting together a blog post on the different ‘types’ of love. In reading the book The 5 Love Languages, by Gary Chapman he posits that there are two types of love: romantic euphoric ‘falling in love’ which won’t last longer than a few years at the most; and then there[…]
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Fighting Fairly: The Pursuer and the Processor
When couples argue there are a host of different styles. Two that are common and go hand and hand I call the ‘pursuer’ and the ‘processor’. The pursuer feels that in any argument they need to have fast and immediate resolution thereby pursuing their partner pushing for answers. The processor[…]
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Therapeutic and the Egoic Selves
I have a metaphor I often tell my clients explaining how therapy works. Holding up my hands in front of myself I demonstrate to my clients two hands fused together. One hand is the Egoic Self which we all have and will probably not remove: it is easily hurt, prideful,[…]
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Dear Sugar Podcast and Codependency
Dear Sugar is a podcast I recommend for the way they deal with powerful, important human issues. One can learn a lot by listening to this podcast with its therapeutic insights, the real raw relationship and other issues they cover, and the straight talk of Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed.[…]
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Top 4 Behaviors That Doom Relationships
Relationships in our lives are very important and great when things are going well. But Issues happen daily and because of that, here are 4 KEY issues which challenge relationships and also some answers of what to do which are Blame/Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling. Blame/Criticism. Criticism consists of attacking or[…]
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Anxiety- How can radix Help?
Anxiety is epidemic in our modern society. In this blog I will discuss some traditional psychological tools { which I use …
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