Building Your Relationship Through Relational Maturity—on the Thrive with Dr. D Podcast

In this beautiful conversation that Dorianne Weil and I had for her Thrive With Dr. D podcast, we discuss relational maturity, disconnection from our partners during the pandemic when all of us may feel a little too close (physically) to them, and how to navigate this...

This Being Human is a Guest House

Today I want to share with you Rumi’s generative metaphor of the human experience as a guest house. Learning about the guest house has been very important to us in our lives, and is important to all of us as we face the challenges in our world today. Our guest house...

What Happens When Your Parent Shows Up?

What does happen when a parent shows up in your relationship? Watch Tanya and Terry.  They are young. They are in love. And they are unaware of the hidden forces that fuel their Power Struggle. Watch as I teach them how to cross the bridge to reveal the underlying...

Crossing the Bridge When Grief Isolates You—a Conversation with Cherri Forsyth

As soon as there is a big trauma, because we suffer each in our own way and often incompatibly, we suffer incompatibly. We are in our survival dance. Each one of us surviving in the relationship because we don’t know how to welcome each other inside of the depth...

The Man With a Heart

In our life together, there have been many challenging times. One of the most difficult for me occurred when Yumi and I faced together the adventure of Yumi’s heart attack and quadruple bypass operation.  Each time destiny gave us a life and death challenge, we have...

A Time for Creative Incubation

“My husband isn’t ill. Humanity is ill.”  The year is 1942. The place is Nice in the South of France. These words were spoken by my mother. She and my father were in hiding in a cellar with 5 other Jewish people. They found out that the Nazis were coming into Nice. My...