Love in the Time of COVID

Under the title "Success", John Heider, in his book THE TAO OF LEADERSHIP, states "If you measure success in terms of praise and criticism, your anxiety will be endless". The only way to separate yourself from this endless anxiety is to realize that you aren't in...

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s been an unusual spring here in Tennessee. We’ve had torrential rain, freezing temperatures, big winds, hail and tornadoes interspersed with days so clear and bright that it makes your eyes hurt. On the stormy days it feels a little like the Virus, unpredictable...

Words of wisdom from the mouth of a Horse.... This book was a gift from a friend today. It couldn't have come at a better time. "What do we do when our hearts hurt?" asked the boy. "We wrap them with friendship, shared tears and time, till they wake hopeful and happy...

Dear Mental Health Professional, Even if there haven't been people clapping in appreciation outside your office recently, we know that you save lives every day. What hasn't ever been the tragic "BREAKING NEWS" on TV is because you did your job. Thank you.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind, I will never die. ~ author unknown

There’s too much to do. There’s work, family, staying healthy (to stay, to go….?), taking care of kids at home, teaching kids at home, and the never ending bills…to name just a few. There’s not enough time in any given day to get it all done, and done in the way that...

We grieve all sorts of things. Basically, we grieve when things change, and things are always changing. It feels as if more things are changing at the moment, although I’m not completely sure that’s true. What I do know is true is that we and our clients are grieving...

It turns out that during a crisis where one can imagine the end his or her life, people have the urge to clean up old relationships, end family quarrels and complete uncompleted actions. Social psychologists have studied this tendency. It certainly makes sense. We...

I hope you’ll forgive me for not having preserved important data in my accumulated files, from which I pull lots of valuable snippets. We weren’t very careful in the olden days. You might think of my undesignated offerings as a trivia problem. If you come up with the...