Author, Speaker, Psychotherapist
I’m a writer, speaker, and psychotherapist living in California’s Wine Country with my two plump dogs and one skinny cat, enjoying occasional visits from my college-age daughter. Most days are spent trying to figure out how to do the working professional, recently widowed, newly single mother life. But in-between these challenges, I sit back and…
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What do you do when hit by a sneaker wave of crisis or loss? I’m still working out the answer to this question, but have learned a few things in the process I’d like to share with you. Working as a therapist for over 25 years, I’ve been privileged to come alongside ordinary people facing…
Read More6.16.19 “Is she yours?!” The question would always catch us off guard. There we were, quietly doing our day together: moving through our errands, exploring the zoo, eating ice cream outside Baskin Robbins on a hot day. We were just a little family of three enjoying our time together when some stranger would feel compelled…
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We have slowly found our way to a measure of redemption.
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Don’t we all want people to believe our lives are more together than they really are?
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Seeing them in this victimized state was just as shocking as it would be to see our beloved Snoopy with a black eye.
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If I have any say in the matter, I will not take a step forward.
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Sometimes my heart knows what my head has yet to wrap itself around.
Read More“When I look at this photo, I see the man behind the camera…”
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My life keeps moving forward, even though at times it feels as if it should have stopped on that surreal day–like a clock whose hands are frozen at the exact moment it got knocked off the mantel.
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Kaleidoscope…pieces could never return to their original, intact state. But because they were broken–and broken together–they were creating beauty all the same.
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…Trying to create a “Merry Christmas” for our families when we’re still in those first tender stages of recovery can feel like trying to decorate the perfect cake for a six-year-old when all you have to work with is black frosting.
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