Readiness to Change

Change, according to one quaint saying, is inevitable…except from a vending machine. The truth is that for most of our clients, change is very hard and most certainly not automatically inevitable. In the Motivational Interviewing literature, Miller and Rollnick often...

Chunking Down Health Issues with your Clients

We are multi-taskers; we spend our days trying to do so many things at the same time, all in the name of efficiency and accomplishment, or so we think. Most often, our multi-focus results in strong feelings of getting nowhere fast or being too busy, swamped, and just...

Getting to the Core of your Clients

You may be familiar with the TED talks, a nonprofit venture devoted to ideas worth spreading. They are available online and they are inspirational. Recently, Simon Sinek did a talk wherein he revealed a very simple, but powerful model for inspirational leadership. It...

See Me…Heal Me

‘See Me…Feel Me…Touch Me…Heal Me’ forms the haunting, opening song lyrics composed by The Who for the performance of the Tommy Rock Opera in the late 1960s. As a refrain, they are particularly appropriate, poignant, and even prescriptive words-to-heed for...