SIMPLIFYING & DOWNSIZING ~ Getting Real!
Yesterday, as I carted home yet another piece of my mother’s furniture. I had to admit to myself that I am not doing very well in the simplifying department! When the calendar turned…
Lessons In Letting Go & Finding Balance with Sora Garrett
Learning to find our balance again and again, is a valuable skill we practice as we navigate life’s challenges. This is especially true during the midlife years when a plethora of destabilizing happenings beset many of us. The blessing…
Mothers Letting Go
Many of us are in the phase of letting go. One of the first and most difficult we face is that of letting go of our role as mothers. We understand that we…
Jung’s 7 Tasks of Aging: Task One — Facing the Reality of Aging and Dying
Editor’s Note: Originally published April 30, 2015; updated August 2025 with new insights and resources. Carl Jung viewed later life as a developmental stage, not a slow countdown. Through work with patients—and his…
THE WOUNDS OF CHILDHOOD
The wounds of childhood run deep. They run broad and wide and are left to fester when the light of understanding, compassion, acknowledgement, and love are nonexistent. In the immediate aftermath of injury,…
Let Go and Let Love
Simple words. Not always a simple matter. Letting go. It’s the hardest thing in the world to do. We seem to have been born to want to change things, to improve them,…
