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Towards Inner Peace

“Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.” Marianne...

“I should have been alerted to the ubiquity of trauma by the fact that three of the first patients I ever cared for were young women on...

A wide variety of dysfunctional relationships have traumatized more of us than we realize, leading to varying levels of confusion,...

"Who am I?" is an honest, deep, central question. A quick, snappy answer is problematic. Thinking about it long & deep, and concluding "I...

What exactly is my general, overall attitude toward this life of mine? I may see it as: • an incredible gift, the opportunity to explore...

The second path by which one can arrive at meaning in life is: "experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words, meaning...

We tend to inhabit a thought-world - 'the story of me'. Incessant self-talk is, we assume, our 'self' telling us who we are...

We keep slipping into energy-draining states completely seamlessly, totally unaware of what's happening. But as soon as we notice our...

Many aspects of life seem stressful and profoundly unhealthy. Nothing substantive appears to have changed since Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)...