Food for thought
Personal reflections about life
Onions Make Me Cry
Sometimes I screw up. It happens when I am not able to see what I’ve got in front of me, when the idea of what should be is so fixed, that it stops me from being open to appreciating what there is. And of course there is this thing with perfection. I am a...
My Friend Death
The death of a loved one is like a gale crashing through your window throwing everything in the air, breaking some objects and displacing others, which fall and come to rest elsewhere. Nothing is ever the same. Death shakes you inside out, throws you out of your...
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Is Gestalt Therapy What I Need? The Therapy of Awareness and Self-responsibility in the Now Gestalt therapy was developed by Fritz Perls, his wife, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940’s. It is an experiential and humanistic form of therapy, originally designed as...
Why Now? Being present.
I’m sitting in my comfy chair, the one I use for almost everything – from writing, to reading, to eating, to watching Netflix or Facebooking. I close my eyes and breathe deeply. My hearing is heightened and I can hear the crackling of the oil radiator in the...
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