I started riding my bike to work a few months ago. As the weather became more lovely, I started seeing more people, saying good morning to more people, waving hello to more kids in strollers, smiling at more cute dogs, saluting more of my fellow comrades on bicycles, saying thank you to more garbage and […]
Getting Creative with Self-Care
When I talk about self-care some people are hesitant, having seen self-care reduced to simplistic, and often expensive, ideas about how we can treat ourselves. The four quadrants model was developed by Dr. Jennifer Middleton–this variation asks that we consider how we can care for ourselves in an ongoing and day to day way, but […]
Advice Column: Harnessing Your Self-Knowledge For Success
I would be a… less than great advice columnist. I love my role in supporting people, but I try not to do “advice giving” as a therapist. My advice column would be a series of questions, and it would look pretty similar each time. As I tell clients, I am not an expert in their […]
Sweater as Metaphor: To Power Through or Acknowledge Mistakes?
I often dive into projects, and knitting was no exception–I decided that nothing in particular was stopping me from knitting sweaters, and went for it. I made one very plain sweater, and then knit a complicated multi-color pattern, entering my second sweater into the state fair and winning second place in the Fair Isle knitting […]