by Alexandra Hepburn | Apr 27, 2025 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
A Serious Thing/ Just to be Alive Mary Oliver There are many days and many times I go about my business of just being alive and I ignore all the wonder and music around me. I walk right past the most exquisite sounds chirping and trilling and...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Apr 6, 2025 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
You might say this is an attempt to find something to say.- about the current political situation. Something that hasn’t been said, something meaningful. I haven’t touched this blog since February 10. Like many of us (but clearly not all of us), I have...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Jan 14, 2025 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. ~...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Nov 17, 2024 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
So – here we are, in the early days after the 2024 election. I want to begin saying something, but find it difficult. I ran across a recent YouTube talk by someone who is well-known (though I don’t know him) – his name is Charles Eisenstein – ...
by Alexandra Hepburn | Sep 15, 2024 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
I’ve been contemplating the meaning of “surrender,” in the context of searching for a house rental (so that I can move back to an area where I loved living a couple of years ago). I’m not finding what I want/can afford, and wondering it may be...
by fusioncw | Aug 5, 2024 | Counseling, Spiritual Guidance
Clients come seeking help with their own values and “orienting systems.” But even when helpers insist that they are “value-free” in their work, a closer look reveals that they naturally bring their own preferred lenses, assumptions about what has meaning, and ideas...
