Soulmate Attraction

“Oh earth you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Does anyone ever really realize life while they live it…every, every minute?” Thornton Wilder

There is poetry in knowing that every earthly minute is imbued with rightness—even when it doesn’t seem so.  This happened for me unexpectedly, though I now see how [...]

Dark Night of the Soul II

Anxiety and depression can accompany a breakdown that we are not ready to admit to ourselves, this is classic denial. The denied breakdown can also make us irritable, angry, frustrated with everything outside of ourselves. We will project the problem on to our partner, our children, our job, our [...]

The Dark night of the soul comes to usher in a new operating system for our lives, while the crisis may take the form of a myriad of external challenges, it really is asking us to make our lives easier and more manageable by deferring to a new authority as our bedrock, that being [...]

The Full and Dry Wells in Our Lives    Part III    From Desert to Oasis

Anytime we make a choice about who to relate to we are choosing a full well or a dry well. Sometimes relationships change as people age and what was once full becomes dry and can become full again in time. [...]

Full and Dry Wells in Our Lives Part II Child of Origin Theory

The dry wells beckon and tempt us with tendrils and hooks that draw us in by activating our yearning to finally heal our relationship with our emotionally unavailable parents. It is not an uncommon to attempt to fix relationships that are not [...]

the first in a series about  recognizing how we nourish or starve ourselves through relationship

The Full And Dry Wells In Our Lives         Defining the full and dry wells in our lives

“You cannot draw water from a dry well, for never will your thirst be abated from dust”

The metaphor of a [...]