Dr. Janice Di Luzio

12/27/2025

12/13/2025

Each one of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Most of the activity in society is subconsciously designed to quell the voice crying in the wilderness within you. The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn to inhabit your aloneness, the lonely distraction and noise of society will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality. In a sense this is the endless task of finding your true home within your life. It is not narcissistic, for as soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world. No longer on the run from your aloneness, your connections with others become real and creative. You no longer need to covertly scrape affirmation from others or from projects outside yourself. This is slow work; it takes years to bring your mind home.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Eternal Echoes
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County Clare Cottage, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/27/2025

Autism • ADHD • Giftedness: Different pathways — overlapping brilliance We often speak about Autism, ADHD, and Giftedness as separate neurological identities — and they are. Yet, the more we learn, the more we see that these profiles aren’t distant islands, but intersecting landscapes. Som...

11/12/2025

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theory of human motivation created by psychologist Abraham Maslow in the 1940s. It outlines what we need to become our best selves.

It’s a framework that describes what motivates people and when. It explains that we have needs and that we typically seek to meet them in a certain order.

Order is a big thing in the hierarchy of needs. That’s why you’ll usually see it represented as a pyramid.

In the strictest interpretation, each level in the pyramid has to be met to successfully pursue the next.

Physiological
Safety
Connection and love
Esteem
Self-actualization

Maslow’s theory says that only after your physical (physiological) needs, like food and water, are met can you then set your sights on your next-level need for safety. And if your physical needs are met and you’re safe and secure, you then address your need to develop close relationships with others. And so on, up to the top of the pyramid.

The first four steps are sometimes called “deficiency needs.” They’re the ones that are outside of yourself. The top of the pyramid, self-actualization, is called a growth need. It’s about the drive that comes from within you and compels you to be your fullest self.

In many interpretations of the hierarchy, people can skip steps. But trying to leapfrog the order can often lead to stress or friction. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs gives us a way to think about what drives us — from finding food and safety to seeking love, respect and purpose. While life isn’t always a perfect journey from A to Z, the framework can help us understand why we feel stuck at times or why certain goals may feel out of reach.

11/10/2025

“The heart is not merely a pump; it’s a sophisticated intelligence system with its own neural network, hormonal production, and electromagnetic field.”

Let me share something that might fundamentally change how you think about love.

10/05/2025

Sometimes there are no immediate revelations.
sometimes there are no immediate solutions.
sometimes there is no immediate movement.

sometimes we have to sit
in the cocoon of ourselves.
sometimes we have to trust the process.
sometimes, even with the help
of guides or teachers
we still are where we are
inside of where we do not want to be.

yes, you are outgrowing the container
but sometimes you still have to sit inside of it.
sometimes, that’s just how it goes.
and then you grow
and unfold
and emerge
and still, you must wait
to dry off those new wings.
still you must wait patiently
before you fly into your now clear vision.

sometimes...
we are cocooning and becoming
for quite sometime...

but from inside the cocoon,
the caterpillar
while dissolving whispered,
‘trust the process.
trust the process..✨

~ Stasha Ginsburg
The Wild Matryoshka
Image Sarah Greenman

09/21/2025

Mel Robbin’s, “Let it go.”

08/27/2025