by Deborah Cox | Feb 4, 2017 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Mood, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships
You’re safe. I’m writing to you: my Republican and Democrat and Independent friends . . . my companions on this journey. A series of conversations yesterday made me realize: We’re all stressed by the changes . . . yes, all of us. If you lean to the right . . . you see...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 26, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, child maltreatment, Therapy, Women, Write and Heal
Lies often come from authority-figures. When I was growing up, preachers told the story of Abraham and Isaac: the one about how Abraham takes his child to a mountaintop and prepares to stab him to death as a sacrifice to God (whose ego must have been puny).Every time...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 25, 2017 | Becoming More of Your True Self, Connect, Mood, Relational Cultural Theory, Relationships, Women
Saturday was Voice Medicine for me. Not only did I march and yell, I connected with thousands (millions) of others and said, We All Belong Here. It countered the heavy weight of worry and dread I’d been feeling for the last two and a half months (maybe longer), made...
by Deborah Cox | Jan 14, 2017 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Coaching For the Therapist, Mood, Therapy
I went through a hard-core atheist phase. In my 20s. I ran from organized religion and chafed at any mention of a higher power. This was it. Just the here and now. Looking back, I wouldn’t trade that liberation for anything. Throwing off all my childhood...
by Deborah Cox | Dec 18, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, Relationships, Relax. You're normal., Write and Heal
My Bodysmith friends and I have been asking ourselves: Do we even want to make resolutions for 2017? Does it make sense to replay the same self-assignments, year after year? The question makes sense if you think about how New Year’s resolutions have evolved over time....
by Deborah Cox | Dec 10, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Mood, Write and Heal
What does it mean to be self centered? Your Self is your wise spiritual center. But outside this center, we live under a weighted blanket of stress and uncertainty, threatened by darkness and greed from all angles. We feel disconnected from neighbors and afraid of...
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