These days my beloved Yumi resides firmly in the Lobby of his inner world. The metaphor of an elevator, which takes us from the Penthouse, to the Lobby, and to the Basement of our inner world, came to me one day as I was teaching a couple how to “cross the...
How do we get to the True Encounter? And what is the distinction between Conflict Resolution and Conflict Dissolution? I would like to share a story today that illustrates a special quality of listening which generates a true Encounter as well as Conflict Dissolution....
It was wonderful to spend time with Jess Crosbie. In her podcast, Jess talks about life’s toughest topics with, as she says, “lots of different brilliant people.” In our time together we talked about intimacy, what it means in all its...
“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...
“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...
