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Posted: March 15, 2020
Hope is such a tricky, complex thing. It is an amazing motivator for change and persistence. And its absence can be devastating. Often when clients come to me, they have lost hope, or find that it is diminishing. In the beginning then, part of my…
Posted: March 15, 2020
I think this is one I will repeat periodically as it is SUPER important. Let’s just stop putting pressure on each other to reach out to family, or a particular family member. Some people have made a healthy decision to cut off their family or…
Posted: March 7, 2020
I heard this line in a song in high school and it has stuck with me ever since. When you have gone through traumatic experiences and are acting in ways that don’t make sense to you, you are living what is still held inside of…
Posted: February 24, 2020
Tracey Africa was an African-American fashion model who began her career in the 1970s. She appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue and had contracts with Clairol and Avon. It was not until she was on a photo shoot for Essence in 1981 that it…
Posted: February 16, 2020
Falling apart is difficult and messy and generally not seen as a positive thing. That being said, it does not have to be. Sometimes we have to fall apart to get put back together differently. Just alcoholics sometimes need to hit rock bottom before they…
Posted: February 12, 2020
You and I deserve to be loved just as we are. Even when we are working to improve ourselves. Even as we transition or work to more fully become out authentic selves, making the outside match the inside. Or as we realize there is a…