by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
You sit week after week in a circle with strangers. You gotta be kidding me. How is this experience helpful? 1. Installation of Hope. Growth and change are possible. We can move along the continuum from collapse to coping to thriving. Observing the improvement in...
by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today is Good Friday. Traffic was lighter coming into work today. The stock market is closed. Congress is in recess. Thirteen years ago today, I brought home my beautiful son whom I adopted. And in the lore of Christianity, the pain of death became a reality. So...
by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I hate Reality TV. In fact, I am not a big TV watcher as it is. Seems that life is too short to sit around watching other folks have a pretend life when I want to be having a real one. But … one show that has captured my attention for a few hours has been...
by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite children’s stories is the Wizard of Oz. As a story, it is delightful but as a metaphor, it is profound. We all are walking that yellow brick road … trying to get what we are missing, trying to get back home. Ideally, this journey is...
by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
It still boggles my mind that we – the advocates for emotional health – cannot rid ourselves from an umbrella of shame. Deeply embedded stereotypes still persist in our field – ones of mental illness, Nurse Ratched, crazed hysteria and weakness...
by Ginger Sullivan | Oct 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
When a patient begins treatment, it is quite common for him or her to tell me that their goal of working with me is to be happy. In the initial stages of our work, I let this slide … for who am I to rain on their fantastical parade? Delusion certainly has a...
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