by Ginger Sullivan | Sep 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Imagine being lost at sea … without a raft or even a piece of driftwood to hold onto. No land is in sight. Neither is the luxury liner that left you behind. It is just you, treading in the dark ocean waters that threaten to drown you. You are going nowhere...
by Ginger Sullivan | Sep 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sometimes, we need to practice. A dry run, so to speak. For, if we throw ourselves in before we are ready or even worse, with the wrong partner, we might leave the experience more harmed than nurtured. And then, we are less likely to want to dive in again or when we...
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 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...
by Ginger Sullivan | Nov 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
“But that would take so much time!” she protested in response to my having walked her and her partner through the intentional set-up of healthy relational dialogue. And in my direct, no bullshit way I respond, “And so? Why is that a problem? Make the time! What more...
by Ginger Sullivan | Nov 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
If grieving were as easy as three simple steps! But somehow, in its madness, having a life vest to ride the wave, an understanding that there is a sequence, we might feel more grounded in a groundless reality. I have broken down the grief stages into a metaphor of the...
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