Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/7/2011 5:36 PM | Add Comment 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 Deutschendorf (www.infiniteyogasc.com) and I focused the participants on two…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/1/2011 8:43 AM | Add Comment Forgiveness #2 Many people emailed me last week and commented on how complicated the issue of forgiveness is in their lives.  I agree.  Forgiveness is a difficult and complicated thought and act. Ultimately, I believe forgiveness is also a grace.  By that I mean that…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 2/21/2011 1:49 PM | Add Comment Forgiveness How do you define forgiveness?  Seriously, if you were asked what it means to forgive someone, how would you describe it? I ask this because, as you can imagine, forgiveness is an issue that comes up frequently in therapy and spiritual direction.  Often it…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 2/15/2011 12:26 PM | Add Comment 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…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 2/8/2011 8:20 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment Dying a Slow Death January 31, 2011 There is a saying among therapists that goes like this: If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out. If you put the frog in lukewarm water…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/31/2011 1:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment Cleaning Out I’ve noticed that many of my friends and I have been enjoying the New Year’s habit of cleaning out.  It seems like such a great time to do this, after putting away all the holiday decorations and returning the…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/26/2011 8:19 AM | Add Comment 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…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/17/2011 11:07 AM | Add Comment 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: courage, conviction, and community.  Since then, I have received numerous wonderful…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/10/2011 5:41 PM | Add Comment 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.  Because weight, as well as most…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/4/2011 4:41 PM | Add Comment Awakening from a Dream Awakening from a Dream October 5, 2010 “Open your eyes.  Take a deep breath.  Sit up.  You’re dreaming,” I told myself over and over.  Awakening from these kind of dreams, the ones that you feel so deeply in your body you…