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To free up our creativity, it helps to explore the issue in a Mindful Listening Partnership.

Year after year, you make new year’s resolutions, only to see them wither away after a few months, sometimes just a few weeks.

Underlying stress is the enormous surge in energy coming from the fight or flight response.

Highly sensitive people make up about 20 percent of the population, and likely include equal numbers of men and women.

It has often been said that adversity builds character. How does this work? Research on resilience suggests a metaphor.

A dream can be an incredibly powerful springboard into a whole new dimension of meaning. Creatively exploring the dream, and what it means to you, can lead you to deep insights.

deciphering the content of a dream means being able to get in touch with information that is important, but difficult for our conscious mind to access.

This page provides two more examples of creative, embodied dream analysis: One is an audio recording, and the other is a video.

The experience of selfhood is not the entirety of our organism, but an integrated expression of the entire organism acting in its environment.

What is it like to feel stuck? When you’re stuck in a rut, it saps your ability to get unstuck.

In my mind, the greatest value of this model is to emphasize that grief is not one-dimensional:

James Prochaska, John Norcross and Carlo DiClemente developed a theory identifying 6 stages of changing. The following is a summary of the 6 stages in this theory.

The responsible divorce is about balance and sustainability. You recognize that there are conflicting needs, and you do your best to balance them

There’s an unintended consequence to putting mindfulness on a pedestal: it becomes an unreachable goal. This article provides a down-to-earth perspective on mindfulness.

The interaction (the circumstances) shapes you. Sensing into your bodily experience puts you in touch with the bottom-up response of your organism.

What is it in us that makes it possible for us to heal based on our faith that healing will happen? We’re not just talking about religious belief, but more generally, faith in a positive outcome.

Back pain is a condition that many doctors consider to be psychosomatic. Many, but not all.

Divorce can be one of the most devastating events in a man’s life. In all-too-many cases, fathers become mere visitors in their own children’s lives.