by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Apr 5, 2024 | Blog
One Problem-One Solution Recently listening to one of my favorite teachers, I discovered something that I surely should have known, but somehow missed. He was offering the idea that all of the personal problems we might face as well as the world problems in our face-...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Mar 29, 2024 | Blog
SO MUCH LOVE Some years ago, a dear friend (who reads this blog) and I were discussing the tenets of Judaism versus Christianity. It boiled down to this – in the Jewish tradition – good works and mending the world make up the teaching of a righteous Jew. In...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Mar 22, 2024 | Blog
Forgiveness – the key to transformation The best definition I ever heard of Forgiveness came via Dr. George Pransky- a Three Principles Therapist. He said Forgiveness is going back to the way things were before the offense. In other words, truly forgiving was as if...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog
Let it Be-Decisions and Dilemmas- This is a period of decisions and dilemmas…we are once again embroiled in the pre-election craziness of a year of voting. We are approaching tax time which always seems to provoke more confusion and concern. Then there are the...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog, It’s a Wonderful Life
Writing down the soul Beginning with the pandemic, I felt the need to express hopeful thoughts through writing. It was provoked by a little rhyme a friend sent me. “When the world turned its back on me, I was up against the wall – I had no foundation-no friends or...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
You are an artist- One of the challenges we can face is seeing ourselves as artists- using our life as a canvas or using a real canvas-either way it is time to free the artist within. Perhaps you are like me, you loved to draw as a child, that is until someone said...
