by Dylan | Jul 10, 2018 | Healthy Mind and Heart
Black Boxes If Captain Jean Luc Picard gets a little jumpy every time he sees a black cube, you have to forgive him. As the only person who has been assimilated by the Borg and lived to tell, we can assume he has some residual trauma symptoms, as would we (see “Star...
by Dylan | Jul 10, 2018 | Healthy Mind and Heart, Healthy Spirit
What Used to Be By the time you get to about 40, you start seeing what everyone who went before you has already warned you about. Things start repeating. People who vowed to never, ever be like their father are looking in the mirror at his “spitting image.” People,...
by Dylan | Jul 10, 2018 | Healthy Mind and Heart, Healthy Spirit
If we have a home with a yard, we may want to cut away the underbrush when bushes are overgrown and choking off the new life. We cut back the trees at the end of the summer to allow a fuller expression of their beauty the next year. We do a clean sweep of the lawn...
by Dylan | Jul 1, 2016 | Healthy Relations, Healthy Mind and Heart
A Need to “No” ~ We regularly encounter things in our lives that seem really hard to do. Rising to a challenge that seems insurmountable, coping with an unwanted diagnosis, committing to important lifestyle changes, and saying goodbye to someone we care...
by Dylan | Jun 26, 2016 | Healthy Mind and Heart, Healthy Spirit
Essays Skating Along One of the biggest things that drew me to becoming a counselor, was an interest in hearing truth. Read more. Taking Stock I don’t know about you, but I really feel for those hard-working people at our local grocery store on a Saturday. Read more....
by Dylan | Sep 13, 2015 | Healthy Mind and Heart, Healthy Relations
Email Brain Gym ~ I have this friend who shall remain nameless in this essay. He is the undisputed master of the terse reply. At least in texts and emails. He excels at the one-word answer and has taken to new heights the less-than-complete sentence. I sometimes...
