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  • Life’s Illusions

    …”I recall, I really don’t know life at all” Some mornings when I go for my walk its not quire daylight. There is just enough light to see where I’m going in the early morning fog, or rising sun. Although I’m on a familiar path there are times something up ahead looks eerily different and alarming. When I get abreast of what looked like a crouching ferral animal, I see it is no more than an old rotting tree stump, changing shapes in the semi darkness. I relax and continue on the path. Something rustles fiercely in the woods.

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 07:12


  • What is behind the mask?

    To be at peace with ourselves, we need to know ourselves ... (C. Matthews).  Aware or not we live many lives, not referring to reincarnation but to the evolutionary track of our lives, through infancy, childhood, adolescence, college, career, marriage, parenting, grandparenting and often widowhood.  Each stage brings laughters and tears and at each stage, new personal preferences, leaving us often to question.  Who am I now? You may fill many roles, but are you the roles you fill?  I think not.  Do you want to know yourself at a deeper level?

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 06:34


  • What do you Long For

    You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 06:32


  • Me and My Shadow

    Try walking down a country road in the summer time without your shadow.  Denying it won’t help, it is a demanding task master.  Cross the road, it is there, walking backwards wont help; it is a constant.  Where there is light, there is shadow.  As well as the outside shadow we have an inside shadow often experienced by us as alien, a “not us” part.  The more split off from it we are the more uproar it can cause us in the daily living.

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 06:30


  • A Passion for Living

    Passion is not a quality that some people are born with but not others.  To be passionate is as natural as breathing, as being alive, the source of who you are.  And Yet...when was the last time you let that part of you out to play.  Watch a child play and you see passion in action.  They know the secret of living each moment with attention and wonder.   As adults we tend to experience a guarded participation in our feelings that leaves us lukewarm toward much of our world.  If you have turned into a bored and passionless grown up, it may be time to let th

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 06:23


  • The Many Faces of Depression

    In any given year more than 17 million Americans suffer from some type of depressive illness.  Many symptoms are common to different kinds of depression and are present with different levels of intensity.  It is important as mental health professionals we understand the origin and meaning of the person’s depression, and not label many states and experiences under a generic label.

    Laura Young
    04/20/2009 - 05:37


  • A New Beginning

    And now let us welcome the New Year full of things that have never been - Rainer Marie Rilke
    Every New Year we make resolutions; to stick to an exercise program, to be more patient etc., telling ourselves this year will be different.  Studies have shown however that only about 40% of resolutions are successful after 6 months.  Wanting to change is not enough, relying on will power is not enough.  So what gets in our way?  Not knowing ourselves at a deep level is a major impediment to change.  Without this knowing we are unaware of the emotional triggers that keep us repeating our negative experiences.  Change takes time, it requires being realistic.  It takes planning, and making decisions regarding a positive replacement for that which you want to extinguish.

    Laura Young
    12/07/2007 - 01:00