I was attending a professional training group to improve my therapeutic skills when I was brought face to face with deep, lingering fear and shame around my past treatment of women and idolatry of beauty. One of the exercises we were asked to do was to pair up with another [...]
We cry out for attachment through our excessive violence, our lack of school attendance, the amount of women we seduce, and few understand why we act out. In just three decades, the number of boys living without their biological fathers has doubled. Fifty percent of American children tonight will go [...]
Dear Therapist, May this prayer bless and sustain your heart, tender warrior. "Lord, come into this Holy Space. May my ears be open, my hands soft, and my eyes ever so kind. May I speak truth that disrupts, kindness in a way that mends. May I have the courage [...]
Pictures tell stories, both told and untold. This photo tells thousands. There are years I go without looking into its glory, but it always whispers back for my return. At times it is just too painful to peer into. Though nearly 30 years have passed since it was taken, there [...]
A Poem for those of us with Anxiety By: Andrew J. Bauman At ease dear one. With the weight of the world on your shoulders, and the weight of your shoulders on the world, At ease. At ease strong one. With your mind running circles around those circles, Choking thought, [...]
