In the therapy room, I encourage people I work with, especially my male clients, to get comfortable with expressing emotion, showing vulnerability. I found the stanzas below among the fragments I had written several years back. It is a piece of many things – a phenomenological rendering of reverie that I frequently lose myself in […]
When Writing Is Right
I had been thinking of writing a blog for quite some time. Unfortunately, I never was able to get it going, to moving from thought to action. Sure, I had composed who knows how many pages worth of material on multitudes of topics, mostly “written” in my head while settling into that sweet spot where […]
Siddhartha’s Love of a Stone: From Theory to Therapy
Like any text, the novel Siddhartha has meant many things to me over time and re-readings. I first read Siddhartha during my high school or early university days. As a coming-of-age story, it resonated deeply with me at the time and fascinated me. Its author, Herman Hesse, soon became my favorite as I devoured one […]