What is Secure Attachment? In a phrase – healthy autonomy. This is a natural, biological connection, created by parents and caregivers who were/are tuned in to the child’s needs and respond with warmth, connection and safe physical contact. Children are confident that parents will respond to their needs, so feel…
The world is constantly changing and evolving, just like you are. The story that used to hold you hostage, is also being changed by the meanings we are learning to change or understand differently. If you could look at your life story differently, tell it differently, experience it differently, what…
“Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally.” Jane Hirshfield We wandered into a corner of the Central Park Zoo, and there, despite the dozens of tourists pointing and tapping the glass, two moneys were squatting on a perch of stone. To our surprise, they…
“Throughout all the ten regions of the Universe there is no place where the Source is not.” Hakuin There’s an old story about a young man who’s freezing on the side of the road in Alaska. He’s hitching a ride to Miami. He’s so cold he can barely hold up…
“The buffalo fed on the buffalo grass that was fertilized by their own droppings. This grass had deep roots bound to the earth and was resistant to drought.” David Peat Try as we will, we cannot escape the making of mistakes. But fortunately, the ever humbling cycle of growing strong…
Too many prints in the same place, because the heart’s a narrow path and our arms its only gate. At times, so many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I’m feeling and why: my first love laughing in a park whose name I can…
Walk long enough and we all trade places. We are always surrounded and carried by the Whole, while we take turns holding and being held, falling and getting up, listening and trying to say what matters. This reminds me of Nur. She too had cancer and was a model of…
“The cut worm forgives the plow.” William Blake The worm is one of the only creatures that grows from being cut. Mysteriously, if you cut a worm in two, each cut half becomes whole, and you have two worms. What is it in how the worm lives that allows it…
“Nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon God than friendship.” Simone Weil I have been blessed to have deep friends in my time on Earth. They have been an oasis when my life has turned a desert. They have been a…
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