Releasing Sessions, inspirational, Santa Barbara

I’ve always been the kind of person who gets to the bottom of things. It is what I am known for. Hugh calls me a terrier with a rat. It is not uncommon when I am working with a couple and the [...]

Last week I had the honor of working with a group of people who had formed a book club where they supported one another in working through all of the processes in our book; I Release! Create the [...]

I have been witnessing something in my practice that I feel represents a bigger trend that is happening in the culture. It started off gradually over the years, but presently, the majority of the [...]

There is a price for everything. Whether we eat one slice of chocolate cake or if we eat the whole cake. With cake, the cost is in pounds. On the other hand if we find ourselves isolated or [...]

Take a breath and imagine someone saying to you: “You shouldn’t feel that way.” “You’re too sensitive.” “Get over it.” Feel what happens inside when these words hit you. These are three of [...]

With a raised voice my therapist reminded me, ” But he drove drunk, he put your life in danger!” This was in response to me brushing her off by saying, “But everyone drove drunk back [...]

We are impacted by one another in ways that are more common place than mystical. So much happens to us when we are in the presence of another human being that goes unacknowledged. The exchange of [...]

Today we transition from the Year of the Monkey, to the Year of the Rooster. You may be experiencing the last lash of the monkey’s tail as it departs 2016. The monkey, the merry prankster left [...]

Each day in my office I’m honored to have a front row seat to the challenges of what it means to be human. For so many of my clients, 2016 delivered those challenges in spades. This only [...]

HaPpY NeW YeAr! WHY NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS DON’T WORK! Every January seduces us with an invitation of possibility. It beckons us to ask questions of ourselves other months never seem to demand of [...]

With the holidays approaching, I find once again December being my busiest month of the year for Releasing Sessions. Although the Holidays are a time for celebrating, reflecting, spending, and [...]

The Healing Time Finally on my way to say yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin, [...]

Boy, could my mother sing! She had great pitch, timing, and phrasing. And she loved to sing. She would belt out those romantic songs from her era: “Because of You,” “All of Me,” “Always.” She [...]

For years I have stood in this intention for myself and my clients:  “There is no pain in your life that cannot be relieved, no incident in your life from which you were never meant to heal, no [...]

The first time I heard it sung was in my living room. We gathered around our black and white set to see the first black man in America with his own TV show. When Nat King Cole walked on stage his [...]

The Furnace      I have been touched by your emails telling me how enriched and inspired you have been by the Bedroom, Match conversation/blog. After the first blog about the Bedroom I received [...]