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• October 30, 2023

  Channeling Uncle Phil

  I’ve been looking into the space created when a young person is hurting, and our response; where empathy and stillness reside. An unlikely example of this space comes from a sitcom in American television history. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air aired from 1990-96 and featured the actor/rapper Will Smith as a troubled teen from Philadelphia who moves…

• August 27, 2023

  The reality of presence

  In his Four Quartets, T.S.Eliot wrote, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.“ Upon revisiting these words from long ago, I am finding myself peering deeper into the counseling spaces we create; to see what works for a client. And each day, I am witnessing the possibilities within that very space. In other words, when realities too difficult to…