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The Season of Change || By Samantha Camerino, LCSW
The changing seasons tend to have a significant impact not just on our mood, but also our actions. As a native east coaster, I personally enjoy the moody grey days, and I welcome the cold in like an old, loving friend. I appreciate the way in which the colder months encourage me to hibernate, to…
Read MoreCreating the Future || By Elani Engelken MA, MFTC, LPCC
As I have been working with clients lately, I have been struck by the importance of not only working through the past, but also creating the future. While I believe that it is necessary to examine and integrate past traumas and current life challenges, I also think it is imperative to create a powerful and…
Read MoreAssumptions, Negativity Bias, & Staying Mentally Healthy During Election Season || By Lora Cheadle, JD CHt
You’ve may have heard the old adage that when you assume things, you make an ass out of both u and me, (ass-u-me, get it?) and if you’re anything like me, you try not to make assumptions. But if you are human, you also have what’s known as a negativity bias. A negativity bias is…
Read MoreHow do we know, what we know to be true? Critical realism as a guide to the real || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
My reality includes an interconnected universe, full of potentialities and one where my efforts matter. How do I justify these claims of knowledge of what I believe to be true about reality? “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Physicist Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Winner I am…
Read MoreSetting Intentions || By Samantha Camerino, LCSW
Often our days are filled with tasks and responsibilities and noise, making it difficult for us to recognize or connect with our personal intentions. Consequentially, we may feel overwhelmed, lost and without a clear direction. Taking time to refocus on our purpose and to reconnect with our self-determination may help us feel a little less…
Read MoreThe Rhythm of Life || By Elani Nicole, MA, MFTC, LPCC
I love this time of year. The crispness in the air, the shortening days and lengthening nights. The nostalgia of back to school and the memories of new school supplies. The changing of seasons always reminds me of the cyclical nature of life. There is order and repetition in nature and the only constant is…
Read MoreLearning to Love Again After Being Hurt || By Lora Cheadle, JD, CHt
As a Betrayal Recovery Expert who works with those who have been betrayed by their intimate partner and are ready to let go of the grief, pain, and heartbreak so they can claim what’s possible for them on the other side of betrayal, one thing I hear often is, “Will I ever be able to…
Read MoreRefining Our Lives || By Marielle Grenade-Willis MA, LPCC
As we move into the final month of summer, I am beginning to feel that life is ramping up. I don’t know if the background anxiety I feel is occurring in tangent with a larger systemic shift such as the beginning of the school year, but I can sense an urgency to prioritize and reorganize…
Read MoreWomen, the Game is Rigged ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
“The game is rigged,” wrote Lux Alptraum in a recent article in The New York Times (1). She continued, saying that women needed to stop playing by the rules. Feminist empowerment, which is the ability for women to make decisions for themselves and act on them, is failing women, she says. By definition, empowerment feminism…
Read MoreThe Relevance of Mysticism’s Via Negativa for Today’s World II By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
After reading The Cloud of Unknowing, my friend Tom said to me, “Whatever you think God is, God is not.” This same friend also told me many times prior to this declaration that to gain this same God’s favor, I needed to submit to the male church leaders of my church and to my husband.…
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