I fell into a discouragement sinkhole, filled with quicksand. I was tra-la-ing along through my weekend and BOOM, before I knew it I was awash in a deep pool of discouragement. I am one of those eyes wide open sort of people. I may take a news fast for a…

We live in a bi-polar world. Day is inseparable from night. Night is inseparable from day. Men are inseparable from women. Women are inseparable from men. We cannot have one without the other. We experience this dynamic of dualism psychologically. We feel this as charged upset emotional and mental energy…

One of the biggest challenges we as a tribe seem to face is Imposter Syndrome — feeling like a fraud. I think that this is fairly common to most professions. With us, this energy seems to come from three main elements of our work. First, there is a fairly rampant…

Several years ago I told Zivorad that I had run out of things to work with in my personal practice … oh, the hubris! I mean, my life was good. At that point, I had been using integration practices as part of my daily meditation for years. I was pretty…

CREATING A CRUCIBLE FOR TRANSFORMATION. By way of introduction, this is the title of the training manual for the AAIT Fellowship Training Group. Participants lovingly refer to it as the Big A$% Notebook. …

We all have continuing education requirements to fulfill. To me, that’s not really the same as deep diving our learning, which is essential for having a successful multi-decade practice. Off the top of my head, here are five ways to KNOW when you are ready to expand your skill base…

COMPASSION FATIGUE — “indifference to charitable appeals on behalf of those who are suffering, experienced as a result of the frequency or number of such appeals.” It may start out as a kind of numbness or irritability. You might feel impatient or just wish someone would stop talking. …

RESIST MUCH? Carolyn and her daughter Jessie are in the thick of individuation in the middle of a pandemic. The arguments are, well, unpleasant. After a layered exploration of Carolyn’s experience of Jessie, the good, the bad, the ugly, she felt better. …

When I learned to swim in the ocean, my dad taught me to watch the waves carefully. He instructed that some waves were just going to be too big for me and I’d need to dive under them so I didn’t get banged up in the surf. The pandemic feels…