What’s Better Than Understanding?

We all want to be understood. This is a fundamental principle of our being.   To feel that someone truly “gets us, know us, feels what we feel, and can relate to us.”   This resonance and simpatico is the strength of relationships.   But when it comes...

What’s the Paradox of Giving?

“Is it better to breathe in or out?”   I asked my client who’d been struggling with devastating health issues after a recent break-up with her fiancé.   “Out,” she said, thinking she’d captured some metaphysical wisdom in a metaphor about giving and...