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A Compassionate Choice for a More Sustainable Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMW3BwIEX4   In the summer of 2002, I spent a month training in Xin Ye Quan with Chinese Master Yang Fan Sheng in the town of Taigu, located in the Chinese province of Shanxi. Shifu was clearly enamored with his 10-month-old grandson. What caught Shifu by surprise is how his grandson would smile, laugh, and become visibly excited as I [...]

By |2023-10-03T12:34:10-04:00October 3, 2023|0 Comments

Healing Parental Wounds

  British pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott introduced the concept of "the good enough parent." In most instances, our parents were doing the best they could in raising us, given their circumstances, knowledge and resources. They were motivated by love and a desire to provide for us to the best of their ability. While it might be comforting to believe [...]

By |2023-06-17T23:06:35-04:00May 28, 2023|0 Comments

Growing Along With Our Children

My friend Amy has been struggling with the changes taking place as her daughter grows into adolescence. Just the other day she was saying to me “For the longest time I was the center of my daughter’s world. I sometimes feel a tremendous sense of grief and loss because I no longer have the lovely close cuddly relationship with my [...]

By |2016-12-08T16:25:36-05:00February 20, 2014|0 Comments
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