In the midst of this current pandemic crisis that is touching all of our lives I would like to offer a resource that my colleague, Karen Bellone, and I have been working on for the past year. Karen is an end of life doula and we both feel that, due to our collective cultural horror […]
There is Depression Treatment Santa Monica, I can assist! I’d like to direct your attention again to the work of Dr. Brene Brown. In an earlier blog I referenced her TED talk on vulnerability which I found to be a very powerful reflection on the original meaning of the word ‘courage’ – which is to […]
Maureen Donley offers individual counseling in Santa Monica. Here is a great individual counseling article on the power of quiet. If you haven’t heard about the new book Quiet by Susan Cain I encourage you to click on the link below and spend twenty very worthwhile minutes listening and watching her most recent TED talk […]
If you’ve ever struggled with meeting a deadline or starting a project you have encountered what Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art, calls Resistance with a capital R. This expresses itself most noticeably perhaps in procrastination. There are endless ways we find to distract ourselves; the chores that all of a sudden […]
I had the opportunity this summer to attend a series of workshops presenting Gestalt Theory that was supervised by the faculty at the Pacific Gestalt Institute. It was there that I was introduced to a short article by Arnold Beisser, M.D. entitled The Paradoxical Theory of Change. You can find the full text of the […]
A client of mine introduced me to Sr. Corita Kent’s rules this past week. Sr. Kent (https://www.corita.org) was internationally famous for her art in the 1960’s and 70’s. Her work is now part of the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum and is part of a current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art as […]