Heart & Mind Therapy, LLC

09/24/2018

09/07/2018

Our perfectionism goes hand in hand with fear of failure. It’s like a prison. However, we have the key, or we can find it.

09/01/2018

I was reminded this morning of the words of the poet Maya Angelou.

I thought I'd share them here. The poem is called "When Great Trees Fall."

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.

When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.

Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.

And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.

09/01/2018

Childhood Domestic Violence and family dysfunction often have similar mental health outcomes including depression, anxiety, and even PTSD.

08/29/2018

The second year without my husband is in some ways harder than the first.

08/23/2018

08/14/2018

07/26/2018

The Dalai Lama is both a futurist and a visionary.

07/25/2018

An aged-care nurse was recently telling me that their nursing home was seeing most of their World War II veterans pass away, to be replaced by baby boomers. “You know something though,” she quipped “compared…

07/25/2018

Was 2017 really the "worst year ever," as some would have us believe? In his analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, psychologist Steven Pinker finds that we're doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago. But progress isn't inevitable, and it...

07/25/2018

Forty years after the birth of the first baby conceived via in vitro fertilization, 33% of Americans say they or someone they know has undergone fertility treatment.

07/22/2018

One Berkeley preschool is baking empathy into its curriculum—and for good reason.