Category Archives: Spirituality

Rent-a-Friend

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Yesterday one of the company members who reads this blog was over and we had a very satisfying therapy-bashing session, in between watching youtube and talking art.  We got very in sync talking about therapy as rent-a-friend.  It made me … Continue reading →

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The Truth about Couples Therapy….Finally

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

So, the Poodle, or Couples Therapist #3, this round. First, to state the obvious, you don’t go to couples therapy if your marriage is in good working order.  You go because you have hope, love and a need for a … Continue reading →

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Humility Week: The Spiritual Answer to WHY? And, RESULTS?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

I went back over my posts and found that right before I started Humility Week, I wrote this thing about being a teacher and the humility involved in witnessing the growth of other people, the luck of that, and the … Continue reading →

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Eating My Words and Then Some….or, Sex, AGAIN

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

So, after saying that I had found no writing on sex from a Buddhist perspective, I continued on in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, to find a chapter entitled, THIS VERY BODY. I have been looking for this chapter.  That’s … Continue reading →

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The Teacher or At What Cost Humility

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

I have been finishing Jack Kornfield’s book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.  And crying.  Perhaps because in all the other reading, I found such a focus on Buddhism, on meditation, on one single path, and while it’s all been interesting … Continue reading →

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Spirituality and Art…or, Things that Are SO Much Better than Therapy

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Yesterday I was talking to a new friend on the phone, and he said something so wise it really blew me away.  I’d gone to couples therapy, session #2, and hated it, really, really hated it.  I was VERY upset.  … Continue reading →

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Why Just About Everything Is Better than Therapy

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I actually heard a guy this month pathologize the love for natural beauty.  I am not kidding.  He said, “You must like the ocean to wash all that shame off.” Give me a break.  You can’t even go in the … Continue reading →

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What the @*(%& is with Re-entry Realizations?

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

This seems to be the personal growth summer.  I have just returned from Arizona.  While I was there, I hiked Bear Mountain in Sedona, attended a workshop for couples (with my partner, duh!), then did a 5 day workshop on…what … Continue reading →

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