Posts by People House
Willing to Die For … || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
A story of one of the Buddha’s great insights comes to mind these days. With AI being portrayed as having the possibility to end the human race, I am wondering, what am I willing to live for? Which for me is very different than what I am willing to die for. Back to the Buddha’s…
Read MoreHow to Forgive || By Laura Zwisler, LPC
I once saw one of those customizable signs outside of a church that said, “Forgive someone today.” If only forgiveness worked like that. If it were simply an act we chose, we would get over things so much easier and more completely. Most people don’t want to hold grudges, they simply don’t know how to find closure.…
Read MoreAnywhere But Here II By Phannie Krentzman
We are living in a strange period of time. The other day I was out at a local pizza shop with my husband and two year old daughter. My husband and I have been very intentional about not being on our phones or doing any screens with her young, malleable, brain. Being a developmental movement…
Read MoreTrauma-Informed Relationships: How to improve your relationships one step at a time || By Annabelle Denmark, MA, LPC
Trauma is often an attachment wound. Something bad happened, and there was no safe, consistent person to help make sense of it or repair it with you. Healing, then, has to happen in relationships too — not through insight alone, but through lived experience that proves something different is possible. Trauma-informed relationships are relationships —…
Read MoreA Real Breakfast || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
Full disclosure, I am not a doctor, a nutritionist, nor a health expert. What I am is a dedicated Buddhist practitioner who is intensely interested health, particularly my own. It started with Yoga teacher training in 2001, which coincided with 9/11, and that event coupled with the mind expanding teachings of eastern philosophy led me to question everything…
Read MoreSummer Grief || By Laura Zwisler, LPC
Someone gave us the idea that summer is always light and fun, full of hope. I’m pretty sure it was Shakespeare. He constantly paints winter as miserable and summer as glorious. Wherever we got the idea, we all wait for summer to come, thinking that this will be the season where we don’t catch colds, get to…
Read MoreThere Is Nothing Wrong With You || By Phannie Krentzman
We all think something is wrong with us. It is the human condition. Our self-perception sits upon an assumption that fundamentally, we are broken. That something is missing. A gazelle doesn’t spend its life seeking its place in the world. It simply lives in accordance with the rules of nature and its subjective role –…
Read MoreSexy Ethics || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
Oxymoronic? Don’t belong together even in irony? And yet, the most iconic storyline is the hero who against all odds, in the end, does the right thing — stands up to the bully, declares strong boundaries, takes the risk for the relationship, and above all, leads with the heart … or at least a sense…
Read MoreWould You Rather || By Laura Zwisler, LPC
I was watching a movie with my kids one time, and a character posed this question: Would you rather drink only plain water for the rest of your life, or anything you liked, but it would have one drop of pee in it? As you can imagine there were some follow up questions: Can you see…
Read MoreDissociative Identity Disorder: What It Actually Is (And What It’s Not) || By Annabelle Denmark, LPC | Renegade Counseling
Let’s get one thing out of the way: DID is not what you saw in a movie. It’s not a dramatic reveal, a plot twist, or a reason to fear someone. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a real, well-documented trauma response — and one of the most misunderstood conditions I work with. So let’s talk about…
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