The Posture of Gratitude

In my own life and in the work we do at Celebration of Being I’ve come back time and time again to the importance of gratitude. Often we reduce gratitude to “a good thing” to feel or express when good things happen to us. There seems to be a common idea that there are...

We Stand on Their Shoulders

One of the hero’s of this century died in early December, 2013. At the age of 95, after enduring 27 years in brutal incarceration on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela emerged to free his people and all of South Africa to move into a time of equality and democracy. I am...

Tough Gratitude: How to be Grateful for our Parents

I have been training more deeply in Family Constellation Work, and besides learning great new tools to use with the people I am working with, it has brought a deeper level of healing and, yes, gratefulness towards my own parents. As some of you know, my childhood was...