Empty Holidays Filled With Joy Again
The Holidays are such a hard time for so many people who have lost loved ones. What once used to be special days of the year, filled with laughter and joy, are now empty shells of sadness and tears. A few years ago I met with an older lady who came to my office seeking relief from the immense grief she carried. It had been almost ten years since her husband passed away. She had always thought the sadness would decrease with time, but the agonizing grief she felt continued to
The One
While "Seed Digging," I see a very common and interesting thing that occurs in sessions. When a person gets back to that "root" memory from childhood that is driving so many emotional or behavioral problems in their life, a distortion has occurred. As little children, we ALL mispieced information together on multiple occasions because our brains weren't fully developed. Children want to believe the "good" in people and society and when others don't do the appropriate or "righ