To you, my desk may look like a rubbish heap. In reality, it is more like a compost bin. Marilyn Elliott shares insight into her creative process, as reflected on her office desk.
Dr. Don Demaray talks lightheartedly about non-retirement, writing, needing people, and his new-found love of dogs.
Russell Hall, a member of the Soul Care Collective Steering Committee, shares some information about what a psychologist is and how they are trained.
Those of us in the helping professions are prime candidates for having compassion fatigue run us right over and we never even see it coming. Let’s take care of ourselves so we can be there for others.
Significantly, when we ignore the quest for balance, we miss a golden opportunity for influence. Like us, the average person in the pew also struggles with finding balance. They too can become addicted to pushing, producing and advancing to the detriment of their quality of life and relationships.
Sigmund Freud observed that the two great themes of adult life are love and work. Although reluctant to elevate Freud’s work as a spiritual compass, I think his observations on this point were on target–
