Essays on Living
Welcome!
Life is full of questions that rarely have simple answers.
In these essays, I explore many of the challenges we face as human beings—from relationships and family patterns to creativity, nature, purpose, and the lifelong process of becoming more fully ourselves.
My hope is that these reflections encourage you to pause, think deeply, and perhaps discover new possibilities for creating a healthier, more fulfilling life.
I invite you to browse, reflect, and join me on this journey.
Why The Odyssey Matters Now
There are moments in history when seemingly unrelated events converge in ways that invite us to pause and reflect. Whether we understand such moments as meaningful coincidences, synchronicities, or simply the unpredictable intersections of history, they have the power...
Collective Unconscious or Morphic Fields? Two Ways of Understanding Human Connectedness
This article grew out of some reflections I shared in my essay When Ideas Appear at the Same Time in Different Places. It began as an AI-generated research summary, which I have reviewed, corrected, and edited. I am sharing it as a concise introduction to two...
Why We Repeat the Same Patterns Even When We Know Better
Have you ever found yourself saying, "I knew this would happen." Or perhaps, "Why do I keep ending up in the same situation?" Most of us assume that once we understand something intellectually, we should naturally be able to change it. Yet life often tells a different...
The Double Spiral in Psychological and Spiritual Healing and Resilience
I have been thinking a lot about the symbol I chose for my new logo - the Double Spiral. Symbols have been used by humans for millennia to elicit associations within our minds that then trigger thoughts, feelings and even actions. Today the double spiral might not be...
Existential Creativity and Mindfulness
We are becoming ever more aware of how our inner lives and our mental health, often negatively programmed by our childhood experiences, affect our outer lives - and viceversa - and how we can improve them both by developing our existential creativity through holistic...
New Year, New Lens! Here’s to 2026 🌟
Hello Friends! As we step into 2026, I wanted to share with you a new way of looking at life and the many challenges we can often be faced with, both individually and on a collective level, and that can be of great help in these tumultuous, difficult and yet exciting...
Loving Others As Ourselves? What?!
Part III of the series on Love: Loving Others in Intimate Relationship "Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack." - Unknown ...
When Ideas Appear at the Same Time in Different Places
Over the past week I have had a truly interesting experience that has caused me to wonder a lot about what the collective unconscious is, how it relates to morphic fields, and how both of them become observable in daily life. During a session with a client, I found...
Celebrating Human Progress at the time of the Solstice
Happy Juneteenth!! Happy Solstice!! I wanted to share some musings on this moment in time and announce my upcoming In-Person Family Constellations Workshop on June 29. (For current information on my Family Constellations offerings go here). As you probably know, the...
Don’t let the Big Bad Baboons get you down – healing from emotional and psychological stress
How can we heal from - and stop creating more of - the emotional and psychological stress that so many of us are suffering from? We all know by now that stress isn't good for us, but why is it one of the greatest problems we modern humans have? I am sure many of us...
