Where and how do we find True love? This is the number one question prevalent in all the magazines where they try to tell you how to not be your true self when trying to find true love. This is for sure a deal breaker and reminds me “if you don’t stand for something you [...]

Over the years I have listened to a sort of running monologue from clients who grew up with an addicted parent. It goes something like this: “I felt like it was all about them, like what was going on inside of me was sort of invisible, like what they wanted or needed always came first.” [...]

One of the most fascinating things about addiction is that, although it has biological antecedents, it revolves around choice. A lot of people don’t know that. But AA knows that. AA almost never says, “You must stop drinking, and you must follow our program”, as if AA had some kind of external leverage to make [...]

Love. It’s a common theme at the moment, what with Valentine’s Day right around the corner. It seems a pretty basic, integral part to human nature, and yet sometimes we don’t feel loved or express love to those all-important ones in our lives. So it’s only fitting that we take time to remember to show [...]

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. And I [...]

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies within us are all the experiences, interactions, emotional styles, physicality, nervous system responses, generational memories, styles of behavior, values and beliefs of our primary caregivers – our families. As more and more [...]

I graduated with my Masters Degree from New Mexico Highlands University in 2004, after three years of constant school obligations, social work-related extracurricular activities, and various jobs that kept a roof over my head and food on the table. So, shortly after receiving my diploma, as a graduation gift to myself, I returned to the [...]