Counseling Santa ClaritaYou Can Flourish!

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.

But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize:

a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes.

All is a miracle.

–Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

Santa Clarita Singles Networking Event

Learn more about yourself and others

Open yourself up to new ideas and new people

For: All Adults over 30 Come meet more people in Santa Clarita!

• Are you an Introvert or Extrovert?

• Are you a Thinker or Feeler?

• Do you gain information by Sensing or Intuition?

• Is your Lifestyle based by Judging or Perceiving?

When: May 3,2014

Day & Time: Saturday 3:30pm- 5:30pm

Cost: Free Location: 18500 Via Princessa Suite 3 Canyon Country, CA 91387

Hosted by Michelle Friedman, MA, LMFT &

Suzanne Holmes M.A., LMFT

Event is limited in space; please call today to reserve your spot.

For more information or questions,

Please contact

Michelle 818 730-8069  or

Suzanne at: (818) 625-3626

“In order for connection to happen,

we have to allow ourselves to be seen. Really seen.”

Dr. Brené Brown

Re-Visioning Psychology
by James Hillman

This groundbreaking classic explores the necessity of connections between our life and soul and developing the main lines of the soul-making process.

“Growth fundamentally means an enlarging and expanding of one’s horizons, a growth of one’s boundaries, outwardly in perspective and inwardly in depth… Growth is re-apportionment: re-zoning, re-mapping: an an acknowledgement, and then enrichment, of ever deeper and more encompassing levels of one’s own self.”

Ken Wilber ,

No Boundary

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Paperback
by Susan Cain

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

“What lies behind us

and what lies before us are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

–Maya Angelou

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness 
by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking book shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.

By using the practices described within, you can learn to manage chronic pain resulting from illness and/or stress related disorders…discover the roles that anger and tension play in heart disease… reduce anxiety and feelings of panic…improve overall quality of life and relationships through mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga. More timely than ever before, Full Catastrophe Living is a book for the young and the old, the well, the ill, and anyone trying to live a healthier and saner life in today’s world.

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey 
by Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.

For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by “stepping to the right” of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by “brain chatter.” Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah’s online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.

 “Alice In Wonderland”

Who Has A Dance For The First And Second Day of Spring?

The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr[1] (1892–1971). It has been adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs.

The best-known form is:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference.

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality 
by Anthony De Mello

The heart of Anthony de Mello’s bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello’s words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.

In short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office, he cajoles and challenges: We must leave this go-go-go world of illusion and become aware. And this only happens, he insists, by becoming alive to the needs and potential of others, whether at home or in the workplace.

Here, then, is a masterful book of the spirit, challenging us to wake up in every aspect of our lives.

The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit (Near Eastern St.;Bibliotheca Persica)
by Donald Kalsched

Donald Kalsched explores the interior world of dream and fantasy images encountered in therapy with people who have suffered unbearable life experiences. He shows how, in an ironical twist of psychical life, the very images which are generated to defend the self can become malevolent and destructive, resulting in further trauma for the person. Why and how this happens are the questions the book sets out to answer.
Drawing on detailed clinical material, the author gives special attention to the problems of addiction and psychosomatic disorder, as well as the broad topic of dissociation and its treatment. By focusing on the archaic and primitive defenses of the self he connects Jungian theory and practice with contemporary object relations theory and dissociation theory. At the same time, he shows how a Jungian understanding of the universal images of myth and folklore can illuminate treatment of the traumatised patient.
Trauma is about the rupture of those developmental transitions that make life worth living. Donald Kalsched sees this as a spiritual problem as well as a psychological one and in The Inner World of Trauma he provides a compelling insight into how an inner self-care system tries to save the personal spirit.

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

~ Eckhart Tolle