12/27/2025
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy; not on fighting the old, but on building the new." – Dan Millman.
Just about done packing up my Chatham office, a space that has tenderly held me, my clients, my work, and other therapists sharing the space with me, since right after the pandemic shutdown began to ease. During these years, I lost my dog, my father-in-law, and my mother, among others. This office was my place of solace, and the healing work that happened here offered healing for my me, as well.
In the past year, as has been true for me for most of my life, my heart began to yearn for something new, something different...a creative energy returned and ignited. I began writing again. I worked on clinical presentations, a Sandplay Foundations training, consultation groups, and the regional group we just launched here in NJ. I painted and drew, danced, and ran. And out of all of that sprung a choice...to let go, to step forward, to open my arms wide to whatever wants to come. My new office in Morristown holds the promise of adventure and mystery.
Out of the darkest times the greatest light can come. I try to remind myself of that when things in the world, the collective, and in my personal life go dim or dark. A wise teacher of mine once told me that we can't have one without the other, and that the challenge was to hold both together....the dark and the light, and to prosper from the union of the two....that is Life.
