Feeling Or Doing? Which Is Better?

I was strongly influenced by a dear friend of mine named Angelia, who passed away a little more than three years ago now. Angelia often stressed the importance of paying attention to one’s feelings about whether a particular activity, relationship, or choice actually felt right. Paraphrasing, she said “if you cannot do this without having [...]

Once More…With Feeling

Hello again, everyone! And again, after a LONG absence, I am back at my website and happy to be here. Remembering that “the perfect is the enemy of the good enough,” I’m using this time to just get started again, instead of making my usual procrastinator’s mistake of waiting to “get ready” before starting. Since [...]

Back in the Saddle Again

Hello again! I am back from a long absence, and I am glad to be here again. As you might recall, several months ago I got the news that my father is in the late stages of terminal cancer. He is still at home in Seattle, and is receiving excellent hospice care. Although his physical [...]

When Your Best Laid Plans Are…Just Rubbish

Many years ago, I went through an intensive teacher training course in England. In order to get on it, you had to have taught full time for five years after obtaining your initial teaching certificate. I was thrilled to get accepted on the course, since it was at one of the top institutions in the [...]

The Slump

I was reading for a client on Sunday, and, as often is the case with my clients, her life was in a mess in one particularly large and important area. The details of her situation aren’t that important to what I want to say today, though, so I won’t go into them. However, she did [...]

Back In the Saddle Again

Hello, everyone! It’s great to be back writing Psychic Thought…I’ve missed doing it, even though I haven’t been doing it for several weeks now. (I’m saying the same thing about exercising, but I still haven’t gotten back to doing THAT yet, but first things first!) Let me explain my absence. I mentioned a few weeks [...]

Freedom From Futility

Let me tell you, there is great freedom that presents itself when you notice that your actions or thoughts are futile. Now, what do I mean by “futile”? Certainly, American culture resists the notion of futility. We are taught to try, try, try again. We don’t like quitters, because they are labeled “losers,” or people [...]

Life’s Only Constant is Change

It’s been a week of change in my life, as well as for the lives of others, of course. The good news is that we have added a new member to the family, a young lady cat we got from the pound, whom we’ve named “Eve.” (My husband and I have a thing about palindromes, [...]

You Can’t Fix Stupid

I just read for a client who is a lovely, lovely woman, having trouble moving ahead with her life because she’s still hung up on trying to reconcile with her ex. Besides giving her advice that was specific to her, I reminded her that “you can’t fix stupid.” In other words, it was clear that [...]

Good Grief!

Anytime I hear the words “good grief,” I always mentally jump in and add “Charlie Brown!” to the end of it. But what exactly is “good grief,” anyway? Is there such a thing as grieving in a good way? If so, does that mean there is a way to grieve in a bad way, too? [...]