CURRENTS THROUGH USELESS BAY

This issue is far from easy, and has many layers of complexity. From a Buddhist point of view, we want to save all beings. But what does “saving” mean? And what if we are excusing ourselves somehow from our bodhisattva vows by using co-dependency as an out?

This morning I was appreciating the swallows nesting near our house, which is not far from a mosquito infested lagoon. I’d read that their young brood, which they are busily feeding right now, eat about 900 insects a day. Watching the parents swoop in and out of the nest, and the hundreds of other swallows [...]

“A delicately attuned empathy: I am here, with you in your pain. It’s so simple. To trust this therapy, that it is not just dead words, but a living act between two humans–that the buried pain and lonely feelings, when felt by another, can re-orient the trauma into something that we can [...]

(Excerpted from our book, In a Cradle of Words: Intimate Encounters in Relational Therapy–used with client’s permission)
Observing Therapy Live
A fly on the wall in a therapy office would have an easier time finding a way to write about a living session of therapy. The vibrations in the room, the unsaid and unspoken are [...]