Doorway Sessions

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the power of metaphor in client sessions

One of my clients just completed a graduate degree and was feeling stressed about his career path. He needed to earn an income to support his family, yet he wanted to stay true to himself. He talked about needing to cross a “bridge” to find work aligned with his heart. But the metaphor that spontaneously…

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Drop below the surface of your mind

Do you ever feel that there is so much more to you and you don’t know how to tap into it? Or do you spend too much time of your precious time lost in confusion and overwhelm? Here’s a quote from John O’Donohue that beautifully describes what we do in Doorway Sessions: “Sometimes on a…

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Your imagination is alive

More than anything else, creating something new requires space. Our rational, thinking selves believe that “creative space” means making time in our schedules and physical space in our homes or offices. (You could call this “linear space.”) But the truth is, the creative process works on a different level and requires a different kind of…

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The doorway to your genius

In a meeting in late December 2006, the President of a small university asked me what course I wanted to teach in their Ph.D. Psychology program. Instead of responding with the curricula that I was already prepared to teach, to my surprise I found myself blurting out… “metaphor.” The topic was right there; there was…

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What image shapes how you see the world?

The French writer Albert Camus wrote, “A man’s life is nothing but a slow trek to rediscover through the detours…those one or two images in whose presence his heart first opened.” The poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers have key images that captivated them as children, and they keep working these images over and over…

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