by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world.” Cuban proverb It’s a relief when we know someone has really heard and ‘gotten’ us. But most of us, especially in heated situations, aren’t really very good listeners. We don’t really...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
It can be scary and uncomfortable to say we’re sorry. To own up to the fact that perhaps we did something less than stellar and that it negatively impacted someone we care for. We want to just brush it under the rug. To have it let go. To not have to meet and...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
For most of us, there’s a state of stress or distress we’ve come to call normal. A humming of the cells. A vibration of the body. A rant in the mind that undermines our sense of well-being and perpetrates great suffering. This may have begun as early as the womb, if...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Apr 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Most of us have been taught that love is a commodity. Something someone either has for us or not. Something that can either be given or taken away, won or lost. Thus, we become dependent on an ‘other’ to make us feel happy and secure. But any dependency can be fraught...
by Johanna Courtleigh | Mar 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sometimes we get lost. In the swirl and whirl of our thoughts. In the energy of our emotions. So lost, we can find ourselves angry, hurt, terrified, bewildered, or worried and out of time, in a memory we React to as if it were real in this very moment, or a prediction...