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Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 6/13/2011 4:54 PM Master family therapist, Maurizio Andolfi, M.D., was the main speaker at the three-day SC Marriage and Family Therapy conference in Charleston, SC this past weekend. He was working live with a single mother and her twin children, trying

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 8/8/2011 3:24 PM July 26, 2011 Every other year, for thirty years now, my extended family (parents, siblings, spouses, significant others, and children) have gathered for a week at the beach. I haven’t kept an accurate account, but I t

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/7/2011 5:36 PM Truthfulness and Change March 1, 2011 Saturday’s all-day yoga retreat, Living with Intention: Virtues That Transform , was an envigorating day with a great group of people. In the morning portion of our program, my colleague Maxine Deutsc

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/26/2011 8:19 AM A True Gift: Part One January 17, 2011 It seems like the aftermath of the holiday season has lasted longer than usual. For those of us living in the Southeast, the momentum of the new year was aborted due to snow and ice storms that brou

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 2/15/2011 12:26 PM Sick I make a really lousy sick person. Honestly, I almost embarrass myself. I have two extremes. The first is to gear up and go into uber-control mode. I take every home-remedy I know to work, I refuse to change my life at all, and I k

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/25/2011 6:29 PM Recovering From Ritual April 18, 2011 Malidoma Some’ is an Initiated Elder from Burkina, Faso, West Africa. One time when he was speaking at an event I was attending he said that the people of his tribe in Africa spent most of their time

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/11/2011 12:44 PM Why we practice I was walking briskly down the wooden handicap ramp, following the plumber who was talking about how he might lay a new sewer line, when it happened. My left heel hit a moist, moldy spot and went skating out in front of

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/10/2011 5:41 PM Loosing and Binding I was scanning my Facebook News Feed on New Year’s Day when I saw this conversation. “ Any resolutions, people?” “ I want to loose weight!” (italics mine) Interesting, I thought. Loosing weight is exactly right. Becau

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/19/2011 9:17 PM At Least You Tried A client of mine drives a taxi part-time. Although it is a second job and is requiring some long hours, the job is allowing him to see many sides of life in his city, and he likes this. He recently told me that sometim

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/17/2011 11:07 AM The King's Speech Monday, January 10th, 2011 If you got my office Christmas letter, you know that I wrote about personal transformation. Specifically I mentioned three characteristics generally needed for transformation to be successful