pilgrim Pathway

Issues


  • Family Are the Best Protectors

    There probably isn’t anyone who knows you better than your family.  In the family therapy community there’s a joke, “Why does your family push your buttons?   Because they installed them!”  Funny but also very true.  The connections you have with loved ones can save your life when you’re in the hospital. A Wall Street Journal…

  • Fly Like a Bird

    Ever watch a bird soar through the sky?  It looks effortless and majestic.  Leonardo da Vinci studies birds in flight and eventually came up with plans for gliders, parachutes and other machines related to flight…just by watching.  When we watch birds we see the two wings twist and turn, be raised and lowered and move…

  • True or False Self?

    We all have many roles that we take on in our daily lives.  Each role taps into a specific part of our being and requires us to present to the world in specific ways, the ways people expect us to act.  The problem is that when you get into putting on a persona for the world how…

  • Loss Is Inevitable…Suffering is Optional

    When mental health professionals talk about grief they are usually talking about grief in response to death.   It’s the most common form of grief and the most widely acknowledged in our society.  Western culture doesn’t like to talk about death but following the death of a loved one the grief hits and takes center stage…