Five things I learned in therapy

September 16, 2026
I'm a believer in therapy. Real therapy. With a good therapist. (Not all therapists are good.) Why do I believe in it? Therapy teaches us how to understand the life we're actually living—and how to stop making the same painful mistakes. (If we choose to. Some of us just love to keep the old...

Three words

January 6, 2011
Too many resolutions, that's what I say. Friends, bloggers, writers all seem to be trying to outdo one another with the sheer quantity of goals for the coming year. It's...

What really matters

January 5, 2011
Here’s a little quiz. It's attributed to Charles Schulz, but he had nothing to do with it. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder them.Just...

Effort & progress

January 5, 2011
It's taken me a long time to get here, he said, so I don't really care if it's wrong.-Brian Andreas/StorypeopleThis could easily be a companion piece to last week's...

What’s the worst that can happen?

January 4, 2011

blame brene brown

January 4, 2011
We make everything that's uncertain, cvertain. Religion: faith and mystery no more--just i'm right, you are wrong, shut up. Same with politics, no discourse, no...

Angels of mercy

January 4, 2011
Most people don't know there are angels whose only jobis to make sure you don't get too comfortable& fall asleep& miss your life. * - Brian...

fakin it

January 4, 2011
Not a fake it kind of...

What happens next?

January 3, 2011
“Ye’d best start believin’ in ghost stories, Miss Turner. Yer in one”, Captain Barbosa/Pirates of the Caribbean Every morning M. and I open our respective...

Trust me on this.

January 2, 2011
You do not want to say things like this to your dog. Once your dog's self-esteem spirals out of control, well, there's hell to...

Reality check: it’s still you

January 2, 2011
I've seen too many movies to believe this would happen to me, he said & she smiled & kissed him lightly & said, It's good to let reality in now &...

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