We are all born with a gift. Each of us possesses a deep dimension of mind, wherein resides intuition and the potential for developing and utilizing the wisdom of your natural psychic ability. Some spiritual teachers believe that as little children we have deeply attuned intuitive eyes, able to see into other realms and other dimensions. Later as we grow and become acculturated to our left brain, cognitive, practicality oriented Western culture, the potential of intuitive resources can become overlooked in favor of linear views of knowledge and of life. This may result in some of us tuning out ..read more

A 58-year-old CT scan technician at a local hospital, the youngest of three sisters, and a recovering alcoholic, Jennie came to therapy four months after healing from surgery to repair an atrial septic defect, one of two major congenital holes in her heart. The repair of one of the major defects, and other secondary repairs had been done during Jennie’s childhood. When we began her treatment, Jennie was about three months into a second episode of sobriety after a relapse prior to heart surgery. As Scott Miller’s research into therapeutic effectiveness has taught us, the relationship is the key ..read more

As a student of social work, I approached my courses hungry to understand what I could learn about human nature and what makes us all tick. But I wasn’t sure about “Research.” I knew that I needed to have some working knowledge of statistics and studies to understand the impact of their findings on my work, but zealous about this course? I was not. Until, that is, I met the professor, a businessman who warned his class not to accept the scientific method as the only way to acquire knowledge or truth. His belief in the ability of the mind to know beyond concrete, factual knowing inspired our re ..read more

INTUITION What Is It and How Do I Know If I Have It? Have you ever had a hunch or a dream that revealed the answer to a dilemma? We live in a culture where traditionally we have been encouraged to use only the logical mind to solve problems. However, we all have a deeper knowing aspect to our minds that over the last couple of decades has begun to be recognized in our Western society as an important dimension of our thinking and coping capacity. We have all had the experience of a knowing moment—the ringing phone that brings the call we “knew” was coming; a “hunch” that comes to pass; an even ..read more

As winter advances into the holiday season, you might find peacefulness by taking  a moment to take in and feel a different view of things. You might choose to notice the many ways the sun sparkles on the snow, creating diamond crystals on teeny branches. Perhaps you may hear the many ways birds sing many songs in winter. You might consider that even with the seemingly never-ending trials of this season, there is beauty. There are blessings, and there is hope. One of my blessings is to sit daily with people who come to me for help, bringing insight and wisdom, and  filling ..read more

Tapping Into Your Intuition   This is not the first time I’ve written about intuition. The article, “Tapping Into Intuition” was first published in the September-October edition of Coast & Country Magazine, a north of Boston publication, in 1983. The article began with a brief visualization exercise, like all my exercises designed to help people tap into their innate psychic ability to solve problems, stimulate creativity, reveal effective choices and generally speaking, help them to feel better. Over thirty years later, this short exercise is still an effective way to enter a relaxe ..read more

Intuition, simply put, is another way of attaining knowledge. It is not a linear process, but rather an experience of knowing that puts together what you’ve know consciously, what you know non-consciously and what just sense. Intuition presents through the mind—and the body– with images, hunches, somatic experiences and mini-ideas that just pop in. For example, intuitive knowing occurs with experiences called “clairsentience, as when you have a feeling-sense that your best friend is about to call or text, and he does. Intuition is natural a human capacity, endowed by nature as part of our abi ..read more

The Relationship Between Stress and Intuition We all have stress. This is a fact of life. And we all have intuition. Intuition is an innate human trait. It is also a fact that stress blocks intuitive knowing. Therefore, to access intuition, we must learn to manage stress. When the mind is filled with the chatter and worries of daily life, it is as if the channel to deeper knowing is jammed and the information that we need cannot get through. Because intuition constitutes the wisdom inside of ourselves, it is something we need and unblocking the route to this wisdom allows us to use more of th ..read more

When the proverbial hits the fan with high velocity stress, where do you turn for wise direction? While processing a problem with your support team is an excellent coping strategy, have you discovered that intelligent guidance is also available from a wise source within? If you have tuned into your body when facing a problem, then you may have been inspired and directed by the veracity of somatic experience, part of the soul wisdom of your authentic Self. A colleague of mine calls our sensate experiences “the feelings of the feelings.” Mindfulness of somatic sensations, and the thoughts and em ..read more

Thankful for Intuition Have a Consultation with Your Soul Wisdom   Many of you know me as a clinical social worker, and some of you know me as a psychic. For those of you who do not know me as a psychic, you may be disappointed or maybe pleased to hear that I am not a teller of the future, or of fortunes in the stereotypical sense. I have developed my intuition to be able to provide psychic readings that I call soul wisdom consultations. Sitting with an individual, I “read” my own intuitive messages, or as some think, possibly subliminal clues from my client. From whatever source the ima ..read more