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Time to take a break. Take a look at Skill 52 here! with gratitude and blessings, Amy & Rhea

Lately, I’ve been a little frustrated and cranky. Upon considerable reflection, I believe it’s because I’ve found myself in some loops. Same old, same old. You know, those messy times when it begins to feel like life is on a hamster wheel. But not the ones in my mind, rather the patterns in life tha

I am going to back my way into this week's blog. I had a birthday last Wednesday. (a big one, a decade one, a decade I am not sure I want to be entering. Ugh.) It was a crisp, cool, blue-skied morning and a friend came over and had coffee with me on my porch. She asked me this question, a question w

Let me give you a bit of insight about LiM 2 . Since we began, Amy and I have formally met at least quarterly to plan topics for the next few months. Since the first of this year, that has been difficult due to our schedules and, in the past month or so, we’ve gone completely rogue—neither knowing w

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. --Leonard Cohen When he was just a young boy growing up in the impoverished Ozarks of Missouri, my friend and spiritual mentor, E. Glenn Hinson, would hide in a closet to a

Last week, I went to a birthday party for a friend. It had been a long week and I thought I would stay only a couple of hours. Or less. Not surprising for this extrovert, I think the host locked up behind me and a couple of other stragglers. But it wasn’t just that I was recharging my low batteries

Kelly Rae Roberts ( www.kellyraeroberts.com ) is a social worker turned artist and writer. I am attracted to her art and follow her blogs because they speak to the truth, beauty, and potential in all of us. Like another of my favorite healing professionals and authors, Brene’ Brown, ( www.brenebrown

Almost daily, I am consciously aware of being grateful for the profession I’m in. There are so many ways that I love being a psychologist, not the least of which is I have opportunities to learn every day. I returned from a professional conference just a few hours ago so I will make this blog short

I am beginning with a disclaimer. I have completely failed this skill for the past year, maybe even 18 months. For many years I had a regular system of retreating. And I am about to put that all back in place, now that I have my head above water and I can allow myself to notice the price I have paid

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” –Dr. Suess In graduate school, I taught a class for transfer and returning “non-traditional” students called Personal and Academi