8/3/16
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Being Present
Learning to stay with emotions.
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7/18/16
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In Support of Grieving
How does it happen that some of us lose connection with our natural ability to grieve? And how do we reclaim it?
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6/17/16
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Grieving heals the wound of loss
When we grieve a loss we shift from living in the pain of what-no-longer-is to living more fully in what is now
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3/10/13
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When old strategies become problems: Part 3
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2/22/13
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When old strategies become problems: Part 2
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2/12/13
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When old strategies become problems: Part 1
The underlying logic and sanity of problem behavior rooted in old learning
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10/27/12
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Therapy is a Zen Koan
Shedding old patterns of thinking, behaving, and relating to self, other, and the world
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3/30/12
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Hypnosis and weight loss: An example of unconscious learning
With hundreds of diets and programs for weight loss, why don’t they work for many people in the long-term? What’s missing?
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12/18/11
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What matters? A Christmas / Winter Solstice letter
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10/28/11
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Teach me to interact with my son the way you interact with me
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10/21/11
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Spontaneity
"All of a sudden I found this thing… the ability to play off of things and work with other people and create…." - Robin Williams - or - Being available to your own intelligent responsivity without having to conssciously manage it. It flows.
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8/23/11
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Getting unstuck: Part 2
Changing unconscious learnings
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6/29/11
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In support of Not Knowing
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6/24/11
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Getting unstuck: Part 1
Refining and building on what we've already learned and accomplished (...and some of the underlying principles of hypnotherapy)
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5/13/11
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A frame for how we learn
how what we learn goes on autopilot and how it happens that we can feel stuck (coming Soon: getting unstuck)
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4/5/11
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Gonzo blogging: The blog does the writer
The difficulties I have writing this blog entry about Good Enough teach me something important and relevant to what I'm writing about
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2/23/11
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Stories and learning
The universe is not made of atoms. It is made of stories. - Muriel Rukeyser
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2/14/11
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Unconscious learning
Would you be willing to learn something useful that you may not know you have learned, nor how you have learned it?
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2/3/11
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Mistake of the week
...or what mistake did I make this week that provided me the biggest opportunity for learning?
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1/25/11
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Learning and mistakes
Separating out what's useful from what's not useful as we learn
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1/14/11
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Great article by David Brooks in The New Yorker
"After all, the conscious mind chooses what we buy, but the unconscious chooses what we like." - David Brooks
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1/5/11
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We are always in a context
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12/20/10
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Winter Solstice: Going into darkness / coming into light
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12/17/10
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Context is the matrix of meaning
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12/14/10
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What is hypnosis?
My clients, colleagues, and I weigh in
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12/3/10
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About this blog
Offered in gratitude to my clients, teachers, and mentors who taught me that our capacity for intelligent and life-affirming responsivity and change exceeds conscious imagining.
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