An adventure into the self: What is that? What would it feel like? What would be the results of such a journey? How would it affect your life? The Self is our core. It exists within us, and is more...

Hundreds of illnesses can be traced back to stress. Stress often creeps into almost unnoticed, and increases in small enough increments that it can become a lifestyle without our even recognizing it has happened. It can affect our home, our...

We have great admiration for those who keep their cool. From movie stars to politicians, from friends to co-workers, from parents to kids, we prefer those who are unflustered in the face of challenge. And, often our own self-esteem is...

We all want to be successful in our lives. The human experience is one of learning to master our internal and external worlds. Such mastery naturally involves a number of failures along the way to success, yet we are always...

Have you noticed that what was to be a time of relaxation and play keeps turning into extra stress? Sometimes our very intentions and expectations about having fun become a set-up for exhaustion. We tend to load ourselves down with...

Divorce therapy? Are you kidding? You're finally getting that fool out of your life and now someone's suggesting you do psychotherapy together? Now, what good would that do--rehashing all the stuff you could never work out? Sounds pretty unpleasant, doesn't...

Hundreds of illnesses can be traced back to stress. Stress often creeps into almost unnoticed, and increases in small enough increments that it can become a lifestyle without our even recognizing it. It can affect our home, our work, our...

I often hear people saying they feel that they need to “get a life.” At once the meaning here is often that they want to know what direction to go in life, such as making career or relationship decisions, but...

“Gimme Love, Gimme  Love, Gimme Sweet, Sweet Love…” That’s from George Harrison, but one could choose any one of thousands of popular over the years where the sentiment is the same: “I love you, I need you, I can’t live...

Thanksgiving–many of our highest aspirations as human beings are magnified around this traditional time of family, spirituality and gratitude. It brings out the joy of sharing, but the very magnification of those ideals can sometimes have the opposite effect, and...

First it’s important to know that giving up the struggle and giving up on the struggle are two different things. To give up the struggle means to stop wrestling with adversity—to deal with adversity in a more creative manner. But...

Show me a couple that never argues, and I'll show you two people who do not deal with their issues. Show me a couple that keeps arguing about the same thing, and I’ll show you another two people who do...

We usually think of holidays with fond memories, happy anticipation. There is so much to fill our minds and senses that we often don’t notice as the stress slowly, almost imperceptibly, takes over the holiday season. So here are some...

The truth will set us free. How much we often chafe under the constraints of our relationships, but relief is in sight. The simple answer comes in being honest about who we are and what we feel. Truth creates freedom...

We all have within us the absolute finest tool that anyone could want – our intuition. No matter what other assets we have at our disposal, regardless of how much we have, or how sophisticated our other resources may be,...

Somehow it seems to have just slipped up on us. There is really no way we could have seen it coming. And now it is so a part of our culture that it is hard to recognize it, or to...

Every one of us has the ability to live a life of complete abundance! Imagine feeling satisfied and happy with your life. Imagine surveying all that is before you and being able to sit back and say, "Ah, it is...

There is only one way to truly create change, to grow, to participate in transformation--both in your own life and in that of others--and that is wholistically. Thinking wholistically means considering healing from a systems approach, from the big picture,...

Meditation may offer you more benefits than any other way of taking care of yourself--whether that care is mental, emotional, physical or spiritual. It is a simple process, easy to learn, requires no changes in your belief systems, and there...

It’s the time of renewal, of thinking ahead, of imagining how our lives could be. It’s a magical time, really, a time of creation—an opportunity to visualize all that we dream, all that we want to be, all that we...

When the warning light on the dashboard of your car begins to flash, indicating that you are about out of gas, do you take a hammer and smash the dashboard? Or do you (grumbling, perhaps) take heed of the warning...

Endings are an element of life. We start life by ending our nine months in the warmth and protection of our mother’s womb. For most, childhood introduces us to many kinds of endings—pets get lost, grandparents pass away, parents get...

It's Spring! The long-awaited time of renewal has finally arrived, and it calls us out. On all levels we are invited to clear away that which is withered, stagnant, or no longer serving us, and to foster that vibrant new...

Let’s face it: whether we want to admit it or not, most of us hold a very idealized concept of love. We want it to fulfill our needs, to last forever, and to be without challenges. In our ideal, the...

Giving our appreciation does not only feed the giver, it also feeds us. We feel lighter, happier, and more fulfilled. In giving thanks we ground that which we have received into our lives rather than overlooking it. We make it...

Probably the most significant and vital arena of our lives is our internal world–that of our thoughts and emotions–our heads and hearts. Yet interestingly, our psycho-spiritual lives tend to get relegated to the back burner in the face of a...

We live in a world very much stimulated by competition. Our view of success is usually somewhat colored by the concept that if one person is to prevail, it naturally means that another must come in second--or if one wins,...