I’m telling you this because I want to spare you some unnecessary pain, confusion and manipulation. Covert narcissists infiltrate your mind. Here are some ways to untangle and free yourself.

Just for the record, we all have a degree of healthy narcissism.

It’s a necessary dose of self-involvement which keeps us aware of our physical, emotional and mental condition. Sometimes our own…

When I was training to be a Gestalt psychotherapist, we covered ethics, empathy, transference and counter-transference, the field and contact boundary, presence, the impasse, Gestalt cycles, and much more, but many things are learned through experience, not education. That’s inevitable.

This piece is about sharing some of my hard-earned wisdom…

An important component of my spiritual path has been A Course in Miracles, also referred to as ACIM and the Course. For those of you who are unfamiliar with ACIM, it is a book by Jesus, channeled by a prestigious psychologist in 1965. …

Don’t expect this article to make sense. Once the obsession with God has taken hold, knowing “why” does not matter. I often say, “Why is a whyld goose chase.” The ego is whyly. Wily means skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. Therefore, the ego loves to distract us with…

One of my most powerful mentors was novelist Brenda Ueland. I didn’t know her personally, but I took her wisdom to heart as if she were speaking to me personally. If you want your writing to escalate to new heights, you should too.

First published in 1938, her book, If…

From an untimely fart to an untimely death, a worst moment ranges from humiliating to devastating.

What makes a “worst moment”?

We’ve all had them. Young or old, a worst moment takes center stage in your life, while it’s happening. If you’re lucky, they are humorous to look back on. …