Conquer Your Mountains
One of my personal struggles is loneliness. I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t loved—not everyone can say this (believe me I know this very clearly as a Social Worker). I can’t recall ever truly being alone or on my own. But there have been sweeping moments and drowning days where…
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. Think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays. This is the reason: …When we listen to people there is an alternating…
I absolutely love the message of this video. I happen to also love Sara and her way with words. I posted the lyrics to this song below and I hope they seep into your heart and percolate in your mind long after the music stops. Go out and BE BRAVE!! BRAVE You can be amazing…
Dear Oklahoma, Boston, N’Orleans, and Newtown We ache for your children lost In the chaos of terror and heartache Our hearts break at such a high cost And we grapple with what can be done Stop the storms and the rage and the guns And we cry for the mothers and fathers Whose arms ache…
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. With out the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, and instrument, a thing.” (Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize winning American Poet) I seem, at times, to get obsessed with the idea…
Dear Readers- Sometimes the road of life can be a bit bumpy and unexpected. At times it seems that you know the answers are out there, but they are hard to find or they are confusing. Other times you struggle watching someone you love suffer—whether through their own actions or as consequence of someone else’s…
This is one of my favorite videos. In fact, I love this video so much that I included it in my book under the chapter called, “Validation.” I am continuously amazed at what a difference a little validation does. I hope you watch all 16 minutes of this short video. I hope it touches your heart…
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates…
I absolutely LOVE my job! There really is nothing like it out there. As a wilderness therapist, I work with both parents and their children. I work in an office and in the wilderness. I am bound by ethical and licensed boundaries, but the sky is the limit when I work with adolescents as we…