Befriending the Inner Child
One of my clients describes this experience she had in grammar school. Being the chubbiest and slowest of the other kids performing wind sprints in Mrs. Wahlberg's P.E. class, my client…
Life Coaching
Burnout
Several years ago, I completed burned out in my work. I had started to feel a dimming of interest in a work project I’d been involved in. I'd been co-running a yoga program in San Francisco…
Facing Negativity
Mary was 48 and had spent her whole life driven to make it big in the corporate world. She arrived at my office and said, "I am totally burnt out and am just going through the motions of my…
Burn Out
When Bob first came to me, he wasn't sleeping. Panic kept him up most of the night. He was taking sedatives to get down and amphetamines to stay sharp through the day, and the cocktail his…
Midlife
I was teaching a workshop a while back and realized I was the only one in the room with gray hair. I don't mind the gray. What caught me was quieter than that: I wasn't young anymore, and…
The Saturn Return: Ages 28 to 31
Somewhere between 28 and 31 this happens to most people, and almost nobody is told what it is.