Musings
“The only appropriate response to vulnerability is reverence”
True. I was recently at another training for my favorite mode of therapy--CIMBS, and someone said this quote. Sadly, I don't know whose words they originally were.If you want to find out more about CIMBS, go to http://www.complexintegrationmbs.com/
More Pema Chodron–HOW TO DEFEAT FEAR
Once there was a young warrior. Her teacher told her that she had to do battle with fear. She didn’t want to do that. It seemed too aggressive; it was scary; it seemed unfriendly. But the teacher said she had to do it and gave instructions for the battle.The day...
I’m In the Media!
I am pleased to say that a company for which I used to work, Screen Inc., which developed a computerized screening measure for mild cognitive impairment, was mentioned in Newsweek. The name of the measure is the CANS-MCI. I published the article which Newsweek says...
From Pema Chodron…words to live by.
"When we start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline,we often think that somehow we're going to improve, which is a subtle aggression against who we really are. It's a bit like saying, "If I jog I'll be a much better person." "If I had a nicer...
A Simple Way to Help
A quote from a movie I saw: "God's only requirement is that you let others know they are not alone." How simple. How profound. How easy. How difficult when we don't know it ourselves...how healing to know it ourselves, because we let others know.
Life Learning
When I was in graduate school, getting my PhD, I read a study that found that college students could be as beneficial to clients as could people with Masters and PhDs, no matter what type of field of therapy studied. At first, I was pretty disheartened, even a little...