THE MIND REFUGE

“Changes are the only constant in life and even this will change”

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There was a time this truth would have made me anxious to the point of staying in bed all day watching Netflix, eating a pint of ice cream. Now, this paradox makes me want to dig into life with the same delight and vigor as that ice cream. Paradoxes are dualities. They give rise to each other, are interconnected and, ultimately, are complimentary.

How can I be loyal to myself and to the family? How to love someone with abandon and not abandon myself? How can I be productive and enjoy the process at the same time? How can I say “no” and still be caring? These are a few questions the experience of being alive in this world can challenge us with. Enigmas that have burned at the crossroads of my own life. I have walked through some of these fires. I continue to move through them. I believe we all can. At the integration of these paradoxes lies the middle path, a place where light and dark begin to touch, a place where healing begins. On the middle path we can be AND we can do. Being able to hold different and opposing parts within our own self, allows us, in turn, to hold complexities in others, an essential component for emotional and

mental well-being. I support my clients to affirm changes and contradictions and move from separation to wholeness.