Much of therapy is learning to love well. Suffering, pain, war, hunger, betrayal, abuse of power, loss…all experiences that we will and are experiencing. Individual and collective. Let this spring equinox be an invitation to hold it all with compassion, care, fierce love, and life-force creativity. The sun and the return to more daylight mirror and invite a return to aliveness. Alive. Despite. Alive, and with. Alive, but. Alive, while others…   And this too: Alive. With. It.

This year will be 15 years with my partner. We found one another young and somehow have survived chronic illnesses, deaths, losses, moves, and raising ourselves. We come from vastly different homes, cultures, and families. Not unlike many of the couples I work with, communication seems to always be the linchpin to our success through rupture and repair.   Rupture and Repair  is the process of moving from misattunement, betrayal, hurt, and towards reconnection , ease, playfuln