by Arise Counseling and Coaching | Jul 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
We continue to be living in a crazy time. The coronavirus has yet to go away and no one knows when it will. This has created a lot of uncertainty for many people – when will schools open up and how will that look, when will people go back to work in-office, when will...
by Arise Counseling and Coaching | Jul 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. – Jhumpa Lahiri The first time that I saw this sculpture by Ukranian artist Alexander Milo, it stopped me in my tracks. I immediately resonated with its simple, but...
by Arise Counseling and Coaching | Jun 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. It would be nice if that meant you could count on everything that happens to you being positive. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way. I know some of my best lessons, and “nuggets”, have come from my...
by Arise Counseling and Coaching | Jun 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently re-read a book I’ve read a couple of other times in my life. The first time in my mid-twenties, then again in my mid-thirties. It’s a novel about a father’s journey from bitterness and despair to acceptance and redemption after he suffered a horrible family...
by Arise Counseling and Coaching | Jun 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
We are living in a very ambiguous time. Our lives have experienced a major earthquake as we are confined to our homes by a disease that is described differently by every expert you read. Staying at home is necessary. Oops! No, it isn’t. Wear a mask when I am out. No,...
by Arise Counseling and Coaching | May 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the last key to R&R (Recovering from the records of the past that devalue our God given identity, and Restoring the truth about who we are) we Repent, or turn, from our old way of thinking. It takes time to break old cycles, but if we identify healthier...
