Decoding Negative Self-Perception: How it Starts and Where it Leads
People are not born with negative self-perception. Every human being aspires to have all their needs met. How these needs are unmet and met goes a long way in understanding patterns in later life.
1 in 4 Americans Suffer with Anxiety or Depression. This is what you need to know.
As a psychotherapist, the most common reason people seek therapy is anxiety and/or depression. Recent studies have identified that anxiety and depression are more prevalent than all other illnesses combined. Most current statistics report that 40 million people in the United States suffer from anxiety that needs treatment, which is approximately 18% of the population. […]
The Secret to Transforming Disappointing Relationships into True, Lasting Love
Both light and shadow are the dance of love – Poet Rumi We often hear about the power of love but often feel we either fall short of its potent power or believe that we are not good enough to deserve it. So… what is Love and why has it been the main subject of […]
Identity: Exploring the Presented Self Vs Real Self
Every person I have worked with has at some point in their life has felt as though they are living a life that seems not of their own free will, as though they were battling for their identity with a fictional “presented” self and a core of being called true or “real” Self. How is […]
Trauma and the Soul: One Thing EVERYONE Should Know
Trauma is a rupture Being human by nature is challenging, and of course the range of challenge is vast… we all know someone along the spectrum of enduring a life full of difficulty and others seem to have more beneficial circumstance… yet, no matter what, we all experience a separation from our fundamental truth – […]
An Exploration of Reality: Attitudes, Assumptions, Projections, Compulsions, Obsessions, Fantasies, Fetishes (AAPCOFF)
An exploration of reality… What in the world does all this mean? Our daily life is the playground of what we call inside and outside of me or otherwise stated, the “outside world” and the “inside world”. This world view is understandable as we have divided life into the objects of life – people, places, […]
Gift Box: Everything in Life is Meaningful
Everything in life is meaningful, imbued with richness and meaning, unless we don’t see the meaning. Only when we don’t see the meaning is it meaningless. Meaningless reflects that we are rigid and stuck with the meaning WE have about life, where as life, presence itself, BEING itself, is complete with meaning…. the message of […]
Looking in the Mirror: How Human Perception Distracts from the Big Picture
Perception When looking in a mirror, at the various reflections present, one can notice there are no separations or borders dividing one reflection from another. One needs to give attention to perceptually selecting one reflection to focus on, while giving less attention to others. The apparent “independence” of the selected image, is purely an act […]
Being: There is No Separation
There is no separation of BEING even in the believed separation of BEING. Therefore you don’t have to change or correct anything you believe about the outside world and more so yourself as that is the object most attacked by our separation of self until subject object. Even the identification, objectifucation, and negative abuse of […]
Love: Forget Everything You Think You Know About Love
We all want to feel love, give love, receive love, be love, in love… but what is love remains so often a mystery to us. Why? Why is the driving force of life, a primary mover of beings so implicitly tied to love lost and found, love heartache and despair, love seeking and yet feeling […]