Catherine Penn Williams, MA, LPC

11/16/2025

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/08/2025

“We carry our childhood with us wherever we go.”
Julian Barnes

Claude Monet - Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882.

11/01/2025

11/01/2025

The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing creeps back into its own nature within the shelter of the dark. Darkness is the ancient womb. Nighttime is womb-time. Our souls come out to play. The darkness absolves everything; the struggle for identity and impression falls away. We rest in the night.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/31/2025

This is the heart of good therapy. Not fixing. Not advising. Not rescuing.

It's about creating the space for someone to discover their own truth, to gently clear away what’s keeping them from seeing what matters most.

But what happens when time is limited? When you have just one hour with someone who needs to hear something difficult, something no one else in their life has been willing to say?

In this moving story, Irvin Yalom meets Maya, a woman whose peaceful smile hides a quiet desperation. Their single session becomes a delicate balance between honoring the therapeutic process and offering the wake-up call she's been waiting for.

Sometimes the most caring thing we can do is speak an uncomfortable truth.
Read how one hour of honesty opened the door to real change. Click the link below to head to the newest issue of Psychotherapy Networker Magazine.
https://bit.ly/46UyP2w

Ben Yalom Creative Therapy
Irvin D. Yalom