by Ginger Sullivan | Jul 11, 2015 | Emotional Health, Relational Intimacy
After about two hours, I assessed that it was gonna be one long week. Two boats, 28 strangers and four guides – better known as “river rats” – ready to lead the way. When I booked a whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River for my kids...
by Ginger Sullivan | Jun 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
I will never forget her. I even recall her name. Martha. (Not her real name. But I remember that too.) The first time she said “f#*k” outloud, we all stood and cheered. Her history, like many that darkened the doors to our program, was abysmal. She had...
by Ginger Sullivan | Mar 29, 2015 | Relational Intimacy
I began teaching psychoeducation (sounds awful, doesn’t it?) in a psychiatric hospital on the north side of Chicago. Yes, it was many moons ago, when insurance companies cared enough about the human heart to finance treatment. Back then, we in the mental health field...
by Ginger Sullivan | Mar 2, 2015 | Emotional Health
No matter the modality – individual, group or couple – it is very common for someone to say, “I can’t take that in. I don’t believe it to be true.” The verbal expression of love being offered to him or her by me, his/her partner...
by Ginger Sullivan | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
I never planned it this way. I never meant for it to occur. And then one day it just happened. I woke up and in the words of Dr. Suess’ Grinch, my “heart grew three sizes that day.” I always knew that I wanted kids. I had worked too hard and come...
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