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is created by Lynn Schlossberger, counselor, MA. LPC.
My hope is for this blog to be a quiet place for reflection and sharing in the midst of the journey. It can be a wild ride. Your comments are invited; we all become more interesting in the company of one another.I practice counseling online at Insight Counseling,
and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while meditating and drinking a great deal of coffee.-
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- Regrouping: what to do with yourself on the day after
- Repairing friendships that were casualties of the political season
- Grieving for strangers: what to do with our hearts, after Newtown
- What hurricane images stir up: reflections on being spiritual but not necessarily religious
- Holding onto sanity, while keeping up with the news
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Scared silly: why do we like haunted houses?
Perhaps, a few millennia from now, archaeologists from another world will study how we earthlings experience fear. If they do, they will notice several incongruous things. First, humans of the early 21st century swallowed a lot of expensive medication to … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety
Tagged anxiety, fear, halloween, haunted houses, Jungian, psychology, shadow
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Coping with jerks, five ways
Unless you live a solitary existence, there’s a decent chance you’ve had a run in with a jerk recently. The perp may have even been a loved one. Failing to show up for dinner, perhaps, or interrupting your heart-to-heart by … Continue reading
Grieving what has never been
Making peace with losing what we want to keep is hard. We understand impermanence in the abstract, but still, our hearts crave continuity. The loss of a job, a relationship, or a loved one leads us to offer tender rituals … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Grief, Mental health
Tagged depression, disappointment, empathy, grief, hope, infertility, job loss, loss, rejection
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Five ways to show your brain a little love
There’s a great deal of mystery, still, about how everything we know about ourselves, from how we find peace, to who we love, to what we like for breakfast, lives within the circuitry of the brain. Somewhere in there are … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health
Tagged brain, meditation, mental health, psychology, self care, serenity
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Three women and the powers that be
I have a great little story to share. Ingenuity sometimes wins. My new camera was scheduled to arrive yesterday. Online, I had tracked the progress of my package across the country: New Jersey, Memphis, Baton Rouge, local delivery truck. Suddenly, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged communication, friendship, networking, nontraditional, relationships, social, stress, women
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Fitting in while unique: what it means to be multicultural
We all need to belong somewhere in this world. As humans, we need a place where we feel at home, and, as the theme song of Cheers used to put it, where everybody knows your name. That can be confusing, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships, Spirituality
Tagged ambiguity, cultural, emergence, ethnicity, multicultural, spiritual development, Spirituality
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