Month: April 2023

I got a nudge to write on this subject earlier this week but didn’t take a stab at it because, well, it’s hard, it’s inconvenient and, if I were honest, people might throw rotten fruit. Then I got another nudge and […]

“But Christine, was it really trauma?”  None of us want to call something trauma that wasn’t trauma.  We tend to not want to catastrophize past events or make it worse than it was.  So….was it trauma?  Does it really need […]

I love helping clients process trauma.  Seriously.  I don’t love that people have to endure the hard things in life because, well, they’re hard.  I hate to see people suffer.  But helping them process their pain….?  Knowing that there is […]

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” This quote has been attributed to the Dalai Lama, Haruki Murakami, and M. Kathleen Casey.  I was exposed to it initially in coaching school and embraced it based on how my instructors couched it.  In other […]

I recently had a conversation with a spouse who had been venting/processing her frustration  in her marriage with others.  Having found myself in this difficult situation myself earlier on in my own marriage (and making unwise choices myself in who […]

I think people have the misnomer that it takes both spouses to enter cooperatively into couple’s counseling/coaching to right the wrong, to turn the ship around.  But is that true?  Actually, my personal experience in my own marriage says it […]

If you read my posts regularly you will realize I have had a ‘dry spell’ and haven’t written at my usual pace.  Dry spells can be frustrating.  I hate writer’s block.  Well….at least now I have a trickle.  Not saying […]