by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Apr 9, 2020 | Community, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book “Love in the Time of Cholera” set its love stories in the midst of calamity. The title plays on the double meaning of cholera in Spanish – referring both to the disease and to rage. So, love as calamity, love despite calamity and...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Nov 4, 2019 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Relationships, Ritual/Remembering
One of the silver linings of working on Saturday mornings is that it gives me the opportunity to listen to “This American Life” while driving on a relatively clear 405 (another silver lining). On this particular day in 2016 the theme was “One Last Thing Before I Go”...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Nov 17, 2020 | Community, Grief/Grieving, Mindfulness, Relationships
Braiding Sweetgrass: a meditation on giving thanks inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s beautiful book I have found myself thinking differently about this upcoming Thanksgiving. Of course there are the basic logistical questions of what constitutes a covid-safe day and...
by Maureen Donley, LMFT | Aug 15, 2011 | Individual Counseling, Relationships, Treating Anxiety and Depression
I had the opportunity this summer to attend a series of workshops presenting Gestalt Theory that was supervised by the faculty at the Pacific Gestalt Institute. It was there that I was introduced to a short article by Arnold Beisser, M.D. entitled The Paradoxical...
