Dialogue to Understanding

Aggression and anger are natural feelings we all have.  They are loud and demanding feelings.  In fact they are so loud and demanding that ...

The expression “I came to my senses” is interesting and important for a number of reasons.  One dimension of the expression is that there i...

When clients tell me they feel confused, I generally tell them, “Confusion is wonderful.”  This comment is often met with laughter or a qui...

There is an expression in the recovery communities, “There is no problem that having a drink won’t make worse.”   In regards to interperson...

The first definition of honest in Webster’s dictionary is “free from fraud and deception.”  What prevents us from being honest with our...

Fear and being scared have different meaning within the work we do to heal.  Fear is the feeling connected with our emotional history.  It ...

Our brain for all of its complexity has one objective- survival.    As such it often processes information (which is all emotions are) in t...