Both/And…keeping it real

We can do hard things. Acknowledging both the good and hard in everyday life.

  • What do we assume?

    I think, like most of America, I am dreading the next few months ahead of the next presidential election. As a therapist and a living, breathing human living in the US, I have heard so many opinions, broken-hearts, hopes, concerns and torn up family systems because of the state of our democracy. *Here is my…

  • Perspective….

    (Disney part 4). June 21, 1996: I had barely turned 23, was enjoying life, post Hope College and still a huge Disney buff. I lived in the small ranch home I’d recently purchased that had been my grandpa’s, with a beloved roommate. She was strong, smart and a person with whom I felt known and…

  • For the love of mountains and Jesus; or pink slippers, 10% and unexpected grace.

    (An entirely different post than what I planned be writing this week…) I have been chewing on a post for the last week and half and it is not this one…. Typically, an idea forms and the words come relatively quick. I reword and rework, sometimes erase and rewrite, but the words and ideas seem…