“So often the work of therapy, certainly not to be narrowed to career counseling, is to examine the forces that brought about the original choices, and to identify the affect-laden complexes that constrict a bold step and a change of life course.” Jim Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life. Sometimes the depression [...]

Read on for a post from my guest blogger Gail McMeekin of Creative Success, LLC You are a creative person.  After all, you run a business or have a career.   You have the ability to do innovative work and to make new connections between ideas, which are the key dynamic of the creative process. Yet, sometimes our [...]

Who needs coaching? Well, um, actually, I do. You’re probably thinking what the woman was thinking when I mentioned in a recent talk (on how to work smart) that I’d hired a coach to help me get clarity on the direction of my evolving business. She declared incredulously when I invited questions before closing, “I [...]

If you read part one of this two-part blog post, you understand what every successful person knows. No matter how solid your strategy for goal accomplishment or how determined you are, you absolutely will fall off track at least once and probably several times as you see your way through to the finish line. It’s [...]

One major advantage of being an adult is that you know the routine by now. You set a new goal – or goals — you feel passionate about. You’re filled to the brim with a newfound sense that you really, positively will change your life this time. You have a clear view of the right [...]

As a psychologist in December, I get a lot of questions about typical holiday concerns.  Pulling off Christmas without running out of money, energy, and time is a big challenge for most of my clients.  But what really piles on stress for people at this time of year is pressure to live up to pervasive [...]

Many clients come to me because they feel stuck in a personal or professional situation – stale relationship, job they could do in their sleep, that sort of thing — that no longer suits them.   Most clients respond well to my optimistic message that they are resourceful beings who can accomplish whatever they want with [...]

Not long ago I was interviewed for an article called “How to Handle the Hectic Weekend.”  The reporter asked me if I agreed that awareness of too many recreation options has made weekends far too busy for most Americans.   Recalling the stressed-out clients I see on a typical Monday – when the work week has [...]

I once worked for a large publishing company that employed the author of an award-winning book about two African American boys growing up in the projects.   More than anything I’d ever read, this heart-wrenching, exquisitely rendered social expose’ opened my eyes to the unflinching tragedy of poverty and prejudice.  I found the book truly life-changing [...]

 One typical day this past week I was sprinting up the stairs to get some necessary item from my bedroom.  The house was a mess, the dogs were wrestling, my stepdaughter Hunter was running to answer the phone, my husband Mike and stepson Ryan were rushing out the door to Ryan’s baseball practice, and the [...]