Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are just one week away from the United States release of Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans. The message of the book is simple: we must learn to face, embrace, feel, and transform our suffering. Only by uniting love and suffering with the practice of compassion will the world […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWithout a doubt, a huge inspiration for my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, is the American Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr. I am incredibly indebted to his body of work and that of his organization, The Center for Action and Contemplation, for deepening my understanding of Christian theology, mysticism, and contemplative practices. Rohr was
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re reading this, you are browsing the endless expanse of the World Wide Web. Like we all do daily on our laptops, tablets, and smartphones, we see a link or headline that piques our interest, click on it, and begin to scroll through it until another link comes up that interests us, and we
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the introduction to my upcoming book, Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans, I tell the story of the incredible princess Miao Shan, who became the Boddhisattva of Compassion, Quan Yin. Also known as Avalokiteśvara and described as “The One Who Hears the Cries of the World,” she is often
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Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s June 2025, and two things are now official. First, I have completed my Counseling program from California State University, which means I am now officially a Mental Health Therapist. Second, I have a new book coming out September 1st, entitled Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans. These two events
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Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week, I covered some of the basics for connected communication, including listening, validation, and communication. What that post didn’t discuss was the underlying assumption that communication is important in relationships. Yes, communication is important, but how important is it, really? And what might be more important than communication in a healthy partnership? Today, I’d
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Reading Time: 7 minutesI love words. I love writing words, thinking about words, and researching the etymology of words to understand how they developed. For example, did you ever look at the word triangle and notice that tri means three, so three angles form a triangle? Did you know that disgruntled is the opposite of gruntled, which means
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Reading Time: 7 minutesWhenever I hear the very important lesson that “every human being wants to be happy, and no one wants to be in pain,” I agree… mostly. On the one hand, this axiom is an incredible help in coming to a shared understanding of our common humanity. We can use the principle that everyone wants to
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the best things we can do for ourselves is love ourselves. It is also one of the hardest things for us to do. Fortunately, most of the obstacles to fostering self-love are simply misconceptions that can easily be dispelled. Many people’s misgivings about practicing self-love, kindness, and compassion are simply not true. For
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Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen I begin any deep philosophical discussion with my students, I like to start with the idea that all philosophy and, indeed, most religious and spiritual traditions, are rooted in a fundamental unease about the human condition. Human beings are rarely satisfied with the way things are. We continually look for greater meanings and greater
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