Mean Girls ~ How to talk to your daughter about …

Toxic Relationships Not exactly sure how best to introduce this topic. We all know about it, regardless of gender. Some of us witness it. Feel uncomfortable when we do. None of us know what to do. How do you deal with a female bully? Female bullying starts when girls are very little, and my observation…

Have you heard about Farm2Door yet?

Dialogue no matter how small or seemingly insignificant always always has an effect. For example, when I am out and about in the world – from time to time, people ask me the question everyone gets asked, “Where do you live?”. I say, “Tecoma”. They say something like, “So what happened about McDonald’s? Did they…

Wanted! Rites of Passage. Dead or Alive. Literally!

What am I going on about? Do you remember, dear reader, when you were young? Before it all happened? The disappointment. The sadness you never speak of, yes – that, what you don’t want to think about, that person, event, experience or place where you left your power and sense of self AND you have…

Attention all Inner & Outer Angry Women!

I have something for you … In the therapeutic journey – I am always encouraged when we get to that underbelly of anger. I know we are close to home – and I gets, excited – almost manically excited! There is a deep well of pain – yes, but it is also where everyone’s power…

Know any “Drama Queens” ..?

They all come from The Drama Triangle! We all know someone who thrives on ‘Drama’ the way an addict craves their drug of choice. They crave the rush of adrenaline that goes along with chaos so they unconsciously and sometimes also consciously create – drama. There is a lot of rushing around when they are…

Transformative Power of Music

“The conductor … depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful” Sometimes, perhaps a couple of times in a lifetime – if you are lucky and pursue truth relentlessly, stubbornly with the tenacity and rigor of totalitarian regime – you will have found yourself in the presence of a Master, a…

Part I: Mona Lisa Isleworth, Louvre ~ Nigella Lawson

Have we all heard about this Saatchi Shenanigans? What was the initial raw unadulterated undiluted instinctive reaction to this news? When you first heard what happened, first saw the photos – heard she left crying then saw photos … Disgust? Revulsion? Reeling of some kind? Followed by the … sanitized, socialized, stigmatized somewhat subdued reaction.…