Starting All Over...

Making big decisions is hard. Sometimes the choices we make will impact our entire life...forever. As I look back on my life, I see how one choice leads to another choice and yet another...then before you know it your life takes twists and turns down paths you never dreamed. Working with my clients as we look at the missing pieces in their lives it becomes very clear how our choices direct our days. And the days the weeks, then the years.

Sometimes it comes down to making one big decision...a decision to just "start over." Instead of being at the mercy of fate, sometimes we just have to get intentional with our decisions. One big decision I encourage my clients to make is to start going down a path that brings health. It is quite freeing to some of them to actually realize that we can choose health! Wow! What a revelation!

I encourage the women I work with to choose health, choose life, choose to choose! We don't have to be stuck and at the mercy of fate. We can begin to make small baby steps toward health. If we make correct "little decisions" we will be heading down a path where the big decisions have a greater chance of being ones that will impact our lives in a positive way.

Recently I've decided to commit to health...for the rest of my life...what about you?

Abandonment-A Real Hurt

OK...so I have the appearance of abandoning my blogging. I haven't really left. My heart has been here. I wake in the middle of the night thinking ...I need to jump up right now and write something. Yes, I think about my blog. But have I done anything? Nope. This is the same concept as abandonment that clients I work with deal with when trying to reach a place of peace. They say, "well, my parents weren't that bad. They bought me things. I didn't go without food. There was a roof over my head. I know they loved me. Yes, their parents had the appearance of caring, but were they really there? There were no messages of encouragement, no words of hope. Only silence. All the while their children were wondering...do I exist? Do they know I am here waiting to hear...waiting to know if anyone cares? Abandonment can be one of the most painful experiences a human can go through. The recovery process is slow. This sense of absence of important people who should be there and who should give verbal and physical messages of caring can only be healed in community. Having a new reality of someone walking beside you offering their presence in a real way...this is the hope that brief intensive therapy provides. It really works! Yes folks, I am back and I promise, promise, I will no longer abandon my commitment to my blog. I have missed you too. Really, I have!