Wending Your Way and “Becoming”

Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation Lucinda Wurtz sat down to share with me about learning to”Wend your way” (finding our way through the world without a linear direction) and how this can lead to becoming who we were meant to be. I was very aware about how she understands the sense of “being with” or […]

Compassion Meets Understanding

Cookies, Learning and Counselor Conversation I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down with Counselor, Emily Willet.  Emily is in private practice in downtown Spokane. The byline on her website sums up nicely both my experience of her and what I know she nurtures within a counseling relationships.  It is: “Where Compassion Meets […]

Counselor’s and Parallel Learning (Counselor Conversation)

Cookies, Learning and Conversation  The learning from this Counselor Conversation was a reminder about how our personal learning contributes to and often is parallel to what we bring to our work with clients.  And that in our own humanness we have so much to offer. For this cookie delivery, I had the pleasure to sit […]

The Gifts of Perfect Imperfection

I let my dog Bodee out and was walking around the yard with him.  I feel that since my life is less rigorous in the sense of going to a work environment, I have had more time to break away and  have a stronger, relaxed sense of attention.  I notice all kinds of things, perhaps in a […]

Fear, Faith and Letting Go: Seven Life Lessons

  “The first summer I was scared out of my mind. The environment was all new to me. I was a kid from Alabama, getting ready to go white water rafting, with fast moving water and lots of rocks. “ When Lindsay was 15 years old and agreed to volunteer as a staff member at […]