Happy New Year – now is a time to reflect, to set intentions; a time to reset, and if you’re feeling courageous or adventuresome, a perfect time for making transitions. …
Renée and Margot have just returned from Vallambrosa, the retreat center where the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition is taught, studied and practice by individuals from all over the world.…
This phrase, “feelings are not emergencies,” was uttered to me over twenty years ago by my clinical group supervisor. I was just out of graduate school and had begun a…
A woman I’ll call Betty, who has the One type pattern, was sitting on a panel in one of my classes earlier in the year. She was describing the sadness…
I remember being in therapy for the first time in my mid-twenties. For a year and a half, I shared the suffering of my tendency to over-give and feel unappreciated. …
It’s the end of the year and I want to write something insightful and inspiring. It needs to be authentic, witty, and touching too. It’s how I set myself up…
Ah resistance, my friend. You come in many disguises and sometimes I don’t recognize you. As a core aspect of ego, I love to hate you, to blame you, to…
A couple of years ago, I became aware that I had an issue with trust. I had recently become a HeartMath Practitioner and had begun utilizing their protocols personally and…
(this post is by my friend and colleague Terry Saracino who has written deeply on the beauty of the Narrative Tradition) May 8, 1989 Santa Fe, New Mexico I found…
Most of us dream of being able to simply BE in the present moment, meeting reality as it is right then, without the preamble of past experience or the pull…