If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known healing practices.

Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

If you want more love in your life, you could not find a better gift to give yourself, a friend, or a lover.

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.

Ray snorted. "Yeah, the air right around where the boat was parked is absolutely full of shit. Like the devil blew his nose all over it.""That's a pretty picture, Ray.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.