“Addiction is a symptom of pain and trauma and we’re all searching for ways to feel less pain.” Steven Bartlett, the Diary of a CEO Shelley told me about her husband’s addiction to alcohol. She told me how he went to ‘Happy Hour’ several nights each week. She told me...
“The endings won’t end you.” K. Tolnoe I work with people all day, every day who are either involved in an affair themselves or have recently discovered their partner’s affair. It’s some of the most brutal, heartbreaking, and challenging work I do. But it’s also some...
“Sometimes, when we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t our partner we are turning away from, but the person we have become. We are not looking for another lover so much as another version of ourselves.” Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity If you...
“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and wait for rain.” Andrea Gibson Monday, January 6th is here and it will be the single day in which the most divorce cases are filed. The madness of the holidays have worn off and there’s the new year energy...
“Clarity is not found in intellect, but experienced in stillness.” Unknown When I went through my Master Coach training with Martha Beck, she spoke to us about the impact of meditation in her life. She said something that has stuck with me for the last ten years (I’m...
