Ginger's Blog

Seven Smatterings to Enjoying the Holidays

Unplug.  As much as we all love our screens, the holidays are meant to be a time for faces. Bright eyes, rosy cheeks, Grandma's yucky lipstick mark, delight written all over.  We joke about the modern idea of family togetherness - everyone sitting in the living room,...

Emotional Literacy

As a psychotherapist, I often see myself as a doctor of the human heart.  One of my missions as I sit in my office is to assist folks in becoming more alive to themselves, others and the world around them.  One significant component in this process is teaching...

What’s Love Got to do With It?

I was talking with my friend the other day after one of his long days at work.  He was telling me about the hustle and bustle he endured and the resulting pain in his feet.  I expressed to him a tinge of guilt and then went on to admit that all I do all day is sip...

Depression as a Gift

What?  Has she really lost her rocker this time?  Perhaps.  My kids would tell you that I do that often.  But, I am asking you to think outside the box with me on this one ... that depression might be an opportunity.  Let's try it on for size.   If seen in a certain...

Road-Tripping

This summer, I took several road trips.  I even took a road trip accidentally ... one that I never intended to take.  If there is a hell, it has to partially be paved with I-95 ... particularly the four mile section that took three hours to traverse.   We could have...

The Unconscious Redefined

I was putting my daughter to bed recently.  In her own beyond-her-years precociousness, she says to me ... "you know, Mom, how you know something in your heart but your brain does not quite know it yet?"  Out of the mouth of my nine-year-old came a perfect description...

How Stress Hardy Are You?

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."                                                                                         -Natalie Goldberg   Psychophysiological conditions have a mind/body connection component and are...

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