We, as small people, learn what it is to be a part of the family that we were born into. We don’t question their rightness or wrongness....

We have the parents that we have. And their parents. And theirs. It matters deeply what happened to those people who came before us. We...

I often find myself saying to people: “These are the actual details of your life. They are yours. Here they are. You must make some...

Expressing joy is not actually generally accepted in our culture of careful public expression of feeling. How many times do we...

When we get too full of undigested feelings, our consciousness shrinks us down to something smaller, tighter - constrained, contained,...

The cycle of not feeling and stashing and moving on takes hold of us. Since we rarely get to come back and feel the feelings that we...

When my kids were tiny, I was struggling hugely with depression and didn’t know it. This manifested as rage and the rage got directed at...

We have forgotten how to feel deeply. And, it’s likely even worse than that, since it’s not just a matter of forgetting. We have created...

Humans are soft-bodied, feeling creatures. We have guts on our insides and we know they’re really vulnerable. Our skeletons do not cover...

People come to me in pain, struggle, stuckness, beginning to wonder if there’s some emotional component underneath the struggle, but...