“Lovers don’t suddenly meet. They live in each other all along.” -Rumi I thought about this saying by Rumi when I received an e-mail from an Israeli woman by the name of Hadassa. She wrote to tell us about the sudden passing of her husband Shmulik. The two of...
I was so fortunate to have been invited by Rebecca Wong to be on her wonderful Connectfulness Practice podcast. It was a joy to talk with her, and, what a listener she is! Rebecca is a relationship therapist who loves helping people get real and reconnected in their...
Kintsugi in Japanese means “golden joinery.” It refers to the art of repairing broken ceramics with a lacquer resin made to look like solid gold. Chances are that a vessel repaired by a kintsugi master will look more gorgeous and more precious than before. Why am I...
“It’s another one of the ways for me to love my man,” I said to the eye doctor. Yumi and I went to see the eye doctor because Yumi complained about having great pain in his right eye. Turns out his eye was very dry because it doesn’t close well. The doctor described a...
“Stop!” I say to the couple. My hand comes down between them. I say it strongly. I say it decisively. I say it emphatically. What am I stopping? I am stopping 13 minutes of their toughest, most loaded conversation. I want to teach them a guiding principle, how to...
