Tag: Respect
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Therapy for Parents (How to be there for your kids)
Parenting is more complex than we think. We need to know how to parent each child a little differently. We also need to know how to parent each child in each developmental stage a little differently. Parenting a five year old is very different than parenting a teenager, parenting a quiet introverted child is different…
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Todays Therapist | Raising a Teenager Infographic
Raising a teenager is confusing for everyone in the family, so, how as parents can we guide our children through this time of life? First, we have to learn of few new parenting skills, because parenting a teen is very different than parenting when the kids were young. What use to work when they were…
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How to Save Your Marriage
To have this question, “ How to save your marriage?” means there is deep hurt and confusion in both partners. When I see a couple in therapy, I always assume each person is doing the best they can, given what they have and have not learned about relationships. I also know that almost all problems…
