Kathleen's Words
Divorce or Drunken Noodles?
“Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?” Sylvia Boorstein One of the challenges of being a couple’s therapist and Newport Beach law firm handling divroces cases is that you often feel as if you work in a war zone, but you have no uniform or weapons....
Does Your Relationship Source from Conflict or Communion?
The Sufi poet Rumi said, “Out beyond ideas of rightdoing or wrongdoing, there is a field, I’ll meet you there.” Where is that field? This photo is on the wall in my office where I work with couples, and I sit facing the field when I work. It reminds me to feel into...
Seeing With The Eyes of The Heart
I recently watched Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the sequel to his first documentary that bought climate change into the heart of the popular culture. I found myself thinking how anyone, especially world leaders, could be so ignorant...
A Word To Guide Your Year
We are here, in 2018, for better or for worse, as far as circumstances go, which is always up for grabs. We simply cannot know what will happen, even with the most skilled intuitives, astrologers, and other wise folk attempting to guide us ahead of time. One sure way...
Getting Groovy As You Get Older
“ The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of...
SACRED DEEP TIME
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two banks the river of my life flows.” Nisargadatta Maharaj The concept of “deep time” was first described in 1788 by theScottish geologist James Hutton, and referred to the vast stretch of...
Enter The Solar Feminine
“The World Will Be Saved By the Western Woman.” The Dalai Lama We see in the #METOO movement and in the defeat of an alleged pedophile in Alabama, that women are refusing to be complicit and to subjugate themselves any longer. This is good for all of us, men, women...
The Fine Art of Failure
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett How often in my lifetime have I had to be vigilant as the fine dust of self-criticism clouded my vision, sending me down the rabbit’s hole of despair and disappointment with self....
Dance Your Heart Out!
We dance for laughter we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. -Albert Einstein Dancing transcends all the artificial barriers of categories. A 90-year old can...