Recently, I have been thinking about the power of true kindness, and the profound impact it can have on us. I’m talking about the real thing: kindness with no strings, no ego, no expectations, kindness for kindness’ sake, big kindnesses and seemingly small kindnesses, seemingly invisible kindnesses and blatantly visible ones. I’ve been remembering all […]
There’s a song by LCD Soundsystem called “Someone Great,” about the feelings that come when someone important to you dies. In the last half of the song, he sings “When someone great is gone,” over and over, enough times that it feels like a chant. This part of the song has been repeating in my […]
The other day, I ended a frustrating long term relationship with my raspberry patch. For about eight years, I tried many things to make the patch bear fruit. Every year, it would flower abundantly, bees would pollinate the flowers, and then the flowers would shrivel up and die. Every year, I would get my hopes […]
Being a toddler, my daughter struggles with the concept of sharing with others. She likes to play with friends, but she also wants to have things go exactly her way. She gets frustrated when they don’t. She is learning a painful but important lesson about what it means to live in the world with other […]
The more gratitude you shine on something, the bigger and better it becomes. Happy Thanksgiving! For more thorough thoughts on gratitude, go here: http://elyntromey.com/therapyblog/?cat=24
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Giving thanks tends to conjure up images of the good things in life: abundance, love, health, wealth, and so on. I recently have been thinking of times in my life that were very difficult or painful, but in the end shaped me and gave me something rich. I am […]
Sometimes, we pay much attention to the things in life that are going badly, or that we don’t yet have yet, or that we no longer have. When our focus is purely on those things, it is easy to overlook that which is going well, the things that are working, and the things we have […]