by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Feb 25, 2022 | Blog
Seeing with the eyes of the Heart As February comes to a close and the series on Heart completes-it seems time for both a little inspiration and a little light heartedness. To see with the heart means to move beyond what we can see with our physical eyes. For me, it...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2022 | Blog
One From the Heart A favorite teacher of mine, Mickey Singer (The Untethered Soul) says the key to individual change or to global change is to “keep your heart open -no matter what.” If we look closely, we can definitely tell our heart tends to be closed more than...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog
Terms of Endearment Excerpt from The Whole Language-the power of extravagant tenderness. Gregory Boyle. “Endearments are the containers of our tenderness. Sacraments delivered daily. They are the words and gestures that transport our love from one person to...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog
You Gotta Have Heart Welcome To February – the shortest month of the year and jam packed with emphasis on Non-Violence, (Dr. King and Ghandi), Black History Month, Good Heart Health and of course my personal favorite, Valentine’s Day….I try to forget its origins on...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Jan 28, 2022 | Blog
Love Wins I am going to depart from my normal topical blogs to a tribute blog. We all have people in our lives that bring out the best in us – that see in us the infinite potential that waits behind our muddled thinking – that Love us with an eternal perspective and...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog
Living in Transition This unprecedented time has felt a lot like the above photo…dominoes falling one after the other in a cascading feeling of disorientation and loss. As I have looked closely at my own perceptions of this historic time, I have noticed that I am...