At the Crossroads
Four Corners Counseling & Well-Being Blog
Serving Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland suburbs including Bethesda, Chevy Chase,
Kensington, Rockville, Silver Spring, and Takoma Park.
Sacred Calling - A Moment of Gratitude
If I can show up as human then I hope my clients have the courage to show up that same way. The road in therapy can be bumpy and uncomfortable but I’m grateful to be seated in the passenger seat, helping navigate the way.
Four Corners Meditation
A 5 minute mindfulness exercise to check-in with yourself & your parts
Confessions of a Reluctant Meditator
It seemed to me that developing a meditation practice came effortlessly to some people. I heard stories of someone starting to meditate one day and twenty years later they were still at it without a hitch. That is what I aspired to, but I kept faltering, and then feeling not good enough as a meditator, or as a person.
A Call for Self-Compassion During Challenging Times
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on many of the aspects of our lives that we previously thought of as consistent, reliable, rock-solid. Having that sense of certainty stripped away has had an unsettling effect on many of us.
Welcoming Whatever Arrives
I was talking with a friend over the weekend - it was Pam Holland from Mindful Decluttering and Organizing - about our lives and our work, and generally supporting one another.
As we were saying goodbye, she commented on how I had responded to her text that morning about arranging our time to talk. When she has suggested a time, I said, “Perfect!” She told me that receiving that response felt good: “I don’t know if it was the perfect time for you, or not, Hetty, but you made it work! You made it perfect!”
A time to float
A wise woman asked me this week: “Do you feel like you have arrived? Or are you still crossing the threshold?” She was referring to more than a year of my actively pushing through some major life events, including expanding my private practice, finalizing a divorce, and organizing a move, while caring for my daughter (and my senior dog!) through it all.
The value of no
I have been wrestling with a hard decision: to say yes or no to starting a new media venture with two terrific business-women friends.
You are of Great Worth!
One morning last week as I was walking into my office, I noticed trash on the front lawn.
This is not that unusual, since the office is at the corner of a busy street. I went to collect the trash and saw what seemed to be the contents of a glove compartment “emergency kit” — a bag of mixed nuts, hand warmers, wet wipes, a pack of gum, a roll of breath mints, and a packet of fruit gummy snacks — all strewn about near an opened ziplock bag. Nestled among these items was a clean, crisp 3x5 card with these words written in bold marker on one side: You are of Great Worth! I was astonished. This item was definitely not trash.