What if your symptoms are showing up to look out for you? What if they are merely messengers from your best self? What if the very thing you're hoping to get rid of is the thing to befriend? What if, instead of running away from the feeling, you stood still with it for a moment? Gratitude is not usually the first feeling we experience when we think of having symptoms.  In fact, with the pervasiveness of the medical model in our modern culture, it would be quite challenging

Dear Reader,   I trust this note finds you exactly where it is that you need to be in this moment of time.   If this note finds you in a moment of struggle, I will say that one of the greatest (hidden) gifts offered to us by our struggles lies in the opportunity to develop faith in ourselves.  Faith that we can endure, faith that we can survive, faith that we can grow, faith that we can thrive.  Ironically, growth necessitates struggle.  Our difficult moments may not be pleas

"Every thing is for every one of us."

Men have feelings, too.