by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog
Relax and Release One of my primary teachers recently said that 80% of our spiritual journey is Letting Go…he didn’t say what the other 20% was but I imagined it to be acquiring…acquiring knowledge or practice -whether of meditation or yoga or chi gong. That hit me...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog
WU WEI all the way wu wei. (wo͞o wā) n. A Taoist principle of action in accordance with the true nature of people, objects, and systems, rather than striving for dominance and control. I have a good friend in Ohio who shares the goal with me of going with the Flow. ...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
Look for the Good As citizens of the world, the last couple of weeks have been hard to watch – full of emotion and the temptation to judge harshly how things should be going. As a lover of New Orleans, the last week has been hard – remembering the horror of Katrina...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog
It’s Not New – But It’s Still True When I first began to study psychology the understanding was dominated by external circumstances as the causation for mental distress. Talking to patients about their upbringing or their life experiences was the primary method to...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Aug 20, 2021 | Blog
Seven Whispers Several years ago I read a wonderful little book entitled Seven Whispers-Listening to the voice of Spirit by Christina Baldwin. Christina is one of the pioneers of journal writing whose course cemented my own commitment to journaling. This week that...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog
Follow Your Bliss Joseph Campbell coined the phrase..Follow your Bliss-I still remember the first time I heard that – it definitely resonated but I had no idea what it meant. I was blessed with an interesting and diverse career path – from sales and management...
