Mental Health Posts

In my family of origin, there were six of us. Mom, dad, one sister, two brothers and me.  We lived in a house that was 700 square feet.  Two bedrooms, one bath.  Tight quarters to say the least.  Money was always short. Times always felt hard, at le…

In preparation for a class I was teaching, I read an essay By Amy Frykholm, entitled “Enslavement and Exodus” (1) , where she quoted Rabbi Ted Falcon. Rabbi Falcon has spent his life studying and teaching about Jewish spirituality, meditation, and i…

I’ve lived much of my life in fear.  Not so much of spiders or snakes, heights or the monster under the bed…..although I do remember a time when I started to realize that the monster wasn’t under the bed but was living in my head.   The fear tha…

In our podcast that posted on August 1, 2026, we discussed how we have been changed in some fundamental ways by experiences, events, tragedies and encounters with people. Those changes may result in shifts of self-perception, identity, world views, …

On my mother’s side of my genetic tree, I come from a long line of short people. My maternal grandmother did not make it to 5’. Her many siblings, spread over Butler and Muhlenberg counties in Kentucky, never reached over 5’2”. The men were small …

The term Toxic Masculinity is attributed to Shepherd Bliss who was a leader of a men’s movement in the early 1980s in North America. He, along with others like poet and author Robert Bly, provided workshops, literature and self-care groups for men w…