During a Healing Touch session, the practitioner kept having “monkey” pop into mind. Finally, a question, “Does monkey mean something significant to you?” led to a cathartic sharing of a childhood trauma in which the client’s adored Curious George stuffed animal had been thrown away. The child perspective was that had been done maliciously, by […]

Her client had been looking for just the right one, and she had finally found it for him. It was a Christmas gift for his wife, and Christmas was just two days away. It finally was ready! Snow was falling as she loaded the precious painting into the back seat of her van, buckled it […]

The dove and feather amulet hung on her rear view mirror. The dove hung at one end, and the feather hung at the other. It had never (not ever!) flipped over. That is, not until that day.

Somehow she knew it was significant, but she really had no idea what it meant.

She could […]

He loved the white-with-red-stripes, soft, sugary mints. And he loved her. She loved him, too, but since she worked as a dietician, his gifted sweets went directly into a drawer, never eaten….

His premature death ended more than his gifting of mints, it also ended her sense of joy.

Then the mints started […]

The 9th of November is my parents’ anniversary, and my brother’s birthday. My father, brother, and sister-in-law were all treated at the VA hospital in Phoenix, and my brother died there. I had been watching a segment of 60 Minutes about the reconstruction of that hospital.

I do not know how this picture happened. […]