Category: Relationships

Tribute How blessed we are when a Woman of Wisdom touches our life. Film maker and documentarian, Julia Reichert touched mine in a significant and life-changing way. On Thursday, December 1, 2022, Julia lost her four-and-a-half year battle with a…

What Was I Thinking? In my last post, I wrote: His (Bryan Stevenson’s) next statements were an awakening as I saw the parallels for women’s concerns: “We don’t realize that we are in the very early days of a post-apartheid/post-genocide era in…

Recently I have been culling my bookshelves … reading some and passing them on … keeping the ones that become treasured friends. The words on the jacket of one originally published in 1992 and thoroughly rewritten in 1998 caught my…

Love is the willingness to extend yourself for the purpose of nurturing your own and another person’s spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck This is my favorite definition of love. When I trained as an Imago Relationship Therapist, we learned to…

Responsibility … a word we rarely hear these days. Instead, we hear “freedom” and “rights” from those who would strip others of theirs. This morning (July 11), I turned on the TV to check the weather. After wading through myriad…

Today is the one-year anniversary of my dearest friend, Barbara’s, passing. Her love knows no end.

My professional journey has been more fulfilling than my personal journey. I never felt competent as a wife and mother. That’s probably why my 12-Step and Imago Relationship Therapy trainings were so rewarding. Finally, I had a chance to learn…

Trust the Process … a spiritual lesson I need to learn over and over. My long months of pandemic angst yields surprising and welcome possibilities.

The opportunity that dropped in my lap to creatively move beyond polarization turned out to be one of my most significant spiritual experiences.

I jumped for joy while super sleuthing for all the details to include in my friend, Barbara’s, Celebration of Life. She was one extraordinary woman!