We Seek Wholeness in Ourselves When we Choose our Mate The adage “opposites attract” is often true before marriage and well into the first few years of a relationship. However, as I have seen in many years of providing marriage counseling, the powerful attraction that once drew you to your mate can fade over time. […]
Freeing the Trapped Spirit Within
In Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, the spirit Ariel, living on a remote island, has been confined in a cloven pine tree by a spell. When the wise and learned Prospero, sent into exile, lands on the island, he agrees to free the spirit if Ariel does his bidding—to create a storm, a tempest so […]
Honoring Each Other’s Dreams: Create Shared Meaning
For Greater Intimacy, Stay in Touch With Hopes and Dreams “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.” W.H. Auden Any committed relationship involves struggle and growth. Handling conflict successfully together, […]
ADHD Medications in Childhood: Dependency and Addiction in Adulthood
ADHD Medications in Childhood: A Cautionary Tale The NY Times article ‘Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions’ was all too familiar. Over the years, I have seen college kids who were started on stimulants for ADHD while still in elementary school. Some of these kids needed the medications and were helped immensely by the proper […]
