Standing in Life’s Doorway: Finding Our Islands Far From Home
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort and despair. -- Mary Oliver I’ve never been one to accept loss with equanimity, though I often wish I...
The Tenuous, Precarious Nature of Faith
To say that one must live with uncertainty doesn’t begin to get at the tenuous, precarious nature of faith. The minute you begin to speak with certitude about God, he is gone. --Christian Wyman in “My Bright Abyss” Years ago a friend of mine once told me...
Embrace the Future: The Empty Space Before the Open Door
One is afraid. Naturally. Who is not afraid of pure space--- that breath-taking empty space of an open door?” --Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea Once or twice a week, I take the train to Los Angeles. It is a relaxing counterpart to the...
Christ is Contingency
But what a relief it can be to befriend contingency, to meet God right here in the havoc of chance, to feel enduring love like a stroke of pure luck. -- Christian Wiman in My Bright Abyss I’ll never forget my first terrifying encounter of God. I...
Dr. Melody Bacon Interview on “The Grace Filled Divorce”
http://www.skidrowstudios.com/psych1on1/2013-04-24/20410/psych-1-on-1-dr-melody-bacon Check out this one-hour long Dr. Melody Bacon interview. In it, she discusses "The Grace Filled Divorce", relationships, and more!
The Empty Choiceless Terrain of Grief
Grief can leave you gifts after the pain has departed.
Dealing With Regret: “I Really Should Have (Shouldn’t Have)”
Essentially most people – in an effort to disguise their internal struggles – will say “I’m over it” when they really aren’t – they wish they were over it – they wish it didn’t bother them, but it does.
Book Signing and Presentation on April 10th – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Join us at Hennessey’s Tavern in Dana Point (on PCH at Golden Lantern) for a book signing and presentation from 6:00 – 7:30 pm! Look forward to seeing you there!
Silence Haunted: The Beginning of the Grieving Process
The experience of being silence-haunted is part and parcel with the end of love – it is part of the price that brave souls pay for having loved and lost. Over time, this too shall pass. It is painful but also a testament to your ability to truly love someone. Whether you are grieving the loss of your spouse through divorce or death, the truth is that the terrain of grief, while well traveled, is also one that you must travel in your own way and your own time. Having taken that road, through the silence-haunted early days of grief, you will find new vistas that lie before you – waiting to be discovered.
Forgiveness in Divorce
As I had struggled through the demise of my marriage, and as I had struggled to define for myself the meaning of spiritual faith, I had mistakenly regarded them as separate issues."- David Brill in A Separate Place. The last thing people thing of when they hear the...