One of my clients recently completed a graduate degree and was feeling overwhelmed about his career path. He needed to support his family financially, yet he also wanted to stay true to himself and his passions. In our session, he described feeling like he needed to cross a “bridge” to find work aligned with his…
Do you ever feel there’s more to you than what you’re currently experiencing, but you don’t know how to access it? Or perhaps you find yourself stuck in confusion or overwhelm? John O’Donohue beautifully describes this experience of feeling marooned on the surface of our minds, unaware of the vast, rich world that lies just…
In late December 2006, during a meeting with the president of a small university, I was asked what course I wanted to teach in their Ph.D. Psychology program. While I had curricula prepared, I surprised myself by blurting out, “Metaphor.” The response felt immediate, bypassing thought entirely, as if something spoke through me. I wasn’t…
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.” Similarly, poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers are often drawn to key images that captivated them as children, revisiting and reworking these images throughout…
When Logic Fails: How Metaphor Unlocks Creative Solutions Recently, a new client, Alice (not her real name), came to me in a state of financial desperation. The book editing work she had relied on for years had dried up, and she needed to pivot quickly. Her plan? Apply for a project manager position at a…
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