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There are things we save and things we discard or give away.  As we get older, we are confronted with many decisions about what we wish to keep and what we need or want to put behind us.  Many women in their 60s, 70s, and 80s start weeding through decades of accumulated possessions, memorabilia, u…Read More

What is a family?  This may sound like a ridiculous question to most people. After all, families are families. The term is self-explanatory . . . or is it?  A family is a group of people related by blood and marriage.  But the term is multiply-layered with meaning, significance, and expectation. …Read More

Gratitude is the basis for much of our personal happiness. At this time of thanksgiving, we have a wonderful opportunity to reflect on all of those people, events, and experiences, past and present, for which we would like to give thanks. Whether we give thanks in the quiet space within our hearts t…Read More

Clutter is the bane of most women’s existence. Except for those tidy few who are able to discard and distribute without guilt or inner angst, most of us struggle. I’ve been reading a lot about tidying and clearing clutter lately. Moving to another place to live is a huge incentive to clear out a…Read More

From birth on, we grow and develop in multiple ways and on multiple levels. The most obvious may be our physical growth, maturation, and aging, but equally prominent is our cognitive development.  This is most obvious and occurs with incredible speed from infancy through young adulthood, but our br…Read More

There is a lively discussion in our culture these days about the topics of transparency and privacy.  The scope of the discussion ranges from the most personal individual right of privacy to the most public and global levels.  While each of us may come down more strongly on one side or the other, …Read More

Kindness is one of the most important values in my life.  I often say, “Kindness is my religion and I practice it daily”.  Sometimes I reflect on how particular values in my life came to be so important.  Two primary influences have contributed to the emergence of kindness as an important lif…Read More

There is a lot of discussion these days about the idea of “inner peace”.  It has actually been a topic for millennia and a key goal of virtually every religious tradition and spiritual path.  Regardless of whether a particular tradition believes in the concept of an afterlife, all traditions s…Read More

At our last meeting, I asked what topics our members would like to discuss in future meetings.  Several women suggested that they would like to discuss politics. In this Presidential election year, politics is at the forefront of many of our minds. Some of our members feel quite passionate about po…Read More

Many women I see in my counseling practice come in wanting to talk about troubled relationships with their brothers and sisters. Relationships with our siblings are seldom straightforward or consistently loving throughout our lives.  We may be best friends with one or more of our siblings in childh…Read More