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When you are an adult having your mom and or dad die can feel like a wake up call.    Here are some of my thoughts on  losing a parent. 1.  Whether you had a good relationship or were estranged from your parent, their death will impact you. 2.  If you had a good relationship

If you are looking at this page, there is a good chance that you or someone you care about has had a major loss in their life.  I want to share with you, some observations about grief and grieving the loss of  a loved one.  I have over 20 years of experience working with grief

We all know somewhere in our being, that one day we will die.  Our hope is to live a long, healthy life with little or no regrets. The deaths that are really hard on us all are:  the death of children and young people, people who have died unexpectedly from illness, accidents, murder or suicide.

The meaning of dysfunction is:  “The condition of having poor and unhealthy behaviors and attitudes within a group of people.  If you grew up in a family where the parents were abusing alcohol or drugs, if  there was  any type of violence, degrees of neglect,and or  unrelenting poverty,  then you probably did not get a

You have struggled as an adult with relationships and or keeping a job.  You have been told or you have read articles and wonder if you have some type of label.  A label that has a possible negative spin.  It could feel hurtful, harmful or spiteful for someone to call or brand you as someone

If you come from a family where there was alcohol or drug abuse, mental illness, poverty there is a higher incidence of  fear, neglect and or abuse.  If this happened in your family, I want to share with you that you may be doing the best you can.  If you have been labelled someone who

Sometimes we  yearn for people and things that are out of our reach.  We want a relationship with an unavailable person.  We want something expensive that is way beyond our budget.  We think if only and what if constantly, so we are unhappy in our present life. We think if we have this magical relationship

As I walk around the city I live and work in, I have become more and more concerned and worried about cell phone and internet addiction.  It bothers me as a counselor and a human being that I am watching people walking with phones in their hands, interacting with an object.  They are not paying

There are four levels to us human beings, actually probably more that I am not even aware of.  But I am going to address the levels that I know and think about. What I know to be true is that when we are out of balance, all of our different levels seem to do more

In the early hours of the morning or at other times of the day, do you wonder, what if?  Do you think gee,  if  I only took that job, went to another school, got a higher education, tried harder in high school, didn’t get engaged so young then, my life would be so much better.