What Am I Saying to Myself?

December 8, 2023

Our minds are busy places (okay, busy is an understatement!). For those of us lacking Buddha-like mental discipline, it’s pretty much a ceaseless flow of words and images moving across our internal screen 24/7. Now some of this thinking falls into what you might call the neutral category–grocery lists, logistics, planning....

Our Psychological Filters

June 28, 2023

                                            The world floods our senses with more information than we can possibly process, so in order to manage that...

How Nature Heals

May 23, 2023

 “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” Walt WhitmanEven if you don’t consider yourself a ‘nature-person’, being amidst trees, watching the ocean, strolling through a park, really, being in any natural environs, can give you a sense of ease...

Turning Your Home into Your Haven

April 24, 2023

For some of us it’s a natural inclination– the desire to make our living spaces a place of refuge, to make them a haven. Kids, for instance, are naturally inclined to create cozy spaces – building pillow forts, filling their beds with stuffed animals or crafting blanket houses. Yet as we get older, we may forget how good...