Timothy Peterson Counseling

10/12/2022

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08/08/2022

If we are not intimate with our emotions, we cannot perceive the dynamics that lie behind our emotions, the way that these dynamics work, and the ends that they serve. Emotions are currents of energy that pass through us. Awareness of these currents is the first step in learning how our experiences come into being and why. ⁠
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Without an awareness of your emotions, you are not able to experience reverence. Reverence is not an emotion. It is a way of being, but the path to reverence is through your heart, and only an awareness of your feelings can open your heart. (Gary Zukav. The Seat of the Soul)

08/04/2022

It may surprise you how your adult children feel about your dating.

07/05/2022

King County Collaborative Lawyer & Mediator Sara Wahl (www.wahllaw.com) starts off our series on pets and divorce. Sara’s blog is “pawsome!”

https://wahllaw.com/2022/06/pets-and-divorce/

05/30/2022

Informative blog from Karen Bonnell on parenting time schedules.

https://karensbonnell.com/the-silent-victims-when-we-get-parenting-time-schedules-wrong/

05/24/2022

05/23/2022

New to Collaborative in Washington? Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator Carol Betts wrote a wonderful blog on getting involved in the community.

https://seattlefamilylawyer.com/collaborative-professionals-connect-with-collaborative-community/

05/14/2022

“The fundamental error persists in the public that there are definite answers, "solutions," or views which need only be uttered in order to spread the necessary light. But the most beautiful truth — as history has shown a thousand times over— is of no use at all unless it has become the innermost experience and possession of the individual. Every unequivocal, so-called "clear" answer always remains stuck in the head and seldom penetrates to the heart.
The needful thing is not to know the truth but to experience it.
Not to have an intellectual conception of things, but to find our way to the inner, and perhaps wordless, irrational experience — that is the great problem.
Nothing is more fruitless than talking about how things must or should be, and nothing is more important than finding the way to these far-off goals. Most people know very well how things should be, but who can point the way to get there?”

C. G. Jung -The Symbolic Life

04/29/2022

Cliff Notes from my two part podcast with Brené Brown about how to apologize and why it matters. Speaking of “hard conversations” we sure dig in.

04/25/2022

"Stepfamily Architecture and Two-House Families" with Karen Bonnell

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s3-e6-stepfamily-architecture-and-two-house-families/id1536606184?i=1000554849163

04/20/2022

Be kind with your words about someone else's mental health. Image by 👏🏻🧠

04/12/2022

"When all we know are unhealthy, toxic and abusive dynamics, being in a new relationship can be scary, even if it's a good one."