Here There Be Dragons!

The decision to change, to journey into the unknown,

can be daunting!

It’s been said that committing to change is not unlike committing to leaving your familiar rooms and walking into a dark room every day.  You can’t be sure where the people are, or even where the furniture is.  You may find comfortable places and uncertain spaces.  There may be welcoming arms to embrace you

and, as sailors once feared as they left sight of land, there may be dragons to face you!

If you are ready, or want to get ready to explore the possiblities in your life, then contact a qualified therapist today and set sail into a new future.  And yes, the map you follow will have areas unknown and as yet unknowable, and perhaps marked with the the notation “Here there be dragons.” 

Learn to slay the dragons you discover and you will be able to live your life more intentionally.

Contact a qualified therapist and begin your own journey into a new future

Quotes for Intentional Living – 9/25/10

Quote for Intentional Living

 “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

William Arthur Ward

This is your Captain speaking!

Who’s in charge?  Of you life, I mean.

So often I am privileged to witness the rekindling of a client’s spirit, and their embrace of the hopefulness born from the decision and determination to begin living intentionally.  These moments never fail to lift me as well, and remind me  of the incredible resilience and unfettered potential that we each have within us.  No, it’s not usually easy to lift one’s head after a devastating experience, yet to do just that, to lift one’s eyes to the horizon, to step away from the past and move once again into the future, makes all the difference between despair and hope.   This iconic poem says it best.

I Am The Captain Of My Soul 

Out of the night that covers me
black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
looms but the horror of the shade
and yet the menace of the years
finds, and shall find me, unafraid

It matters not how strait the gate
how charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.

(“Invictus,”by William Earnest Henley)

Reclaim your place as captain,

and if you need a navigator to help chart your course,

contact a qualified therapist today.

Quotes for Intentional Living – 9/18/10

Quote for Intentional Living

Great joys make us love the world.

Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Kent Nerburn

Who Killed Father Time?

We all have. 

We’ve conspired to kill time…

Not in the sense we usually mean by this, but because we have incessantly squeezed and squeezed time, compressing it into ever smaller bits…  and bytes. 

Think of when written communication took months to travel, then weeks, days, minutes and now seconds! And so many of us belive we’ve gained… gained time and opportunity, that we’re moving (or time is moving) faster and so we’re getting more of it.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.

What we’ve actually done is squeeze out all possibility for the easing of time into the slow drip of contemplation, consideration, re-consideration and even rumination.  We’re so focused on “responding” instantly that we’ve lost focus on what we’re responding to, and why.  With ever shorter bits – and bytes – of pseudo information we are “collecting” people without knowing why, the way children collect broken crayons, or put pebbles in a jar.

If you find that time seems to be melting down to split seconds of meaningless interaction, and you are increasingly alienated from a sense of slow-moving wonder about the world around you, with less and less time to be hopeful, or curious, or curteous, then take a precious moment to consider contacting a qualified therapist.  You can get support and guidance in illuminating and examining the pace of your life. 

You may find that you can take your time, and learn to take your time back, so that you may spend more time considering your path, and aligning your thoughts, feelings and conduct to help you find your destination. 

You may even find a little to waste on the way.

Call for an appointment today.  It’s about time!

Quotes for Intentional Living- 9/11/10

 

Quote for Intentional Living

 

“The work goes on.

The cause endures.

The hope still lives.

The dream shall never die.”

            Teddy Kennedy

Quotes for Intentional Living – 9/04/10

 

Quote for Intentional Living

“When it’s dark enough

       you can see the stars”

Charles E. Beard