Some of the philosophical/psychological/spiritual/educational principles that guide my practice include the following:

• You have power.
• Your soul loves the truth.
• You are your own authority.
• Don’t believe everything you think.
• All belongs to us and we belong to all.
• You are what you believe (more or less).
• Everything you need to know is inside of you.
• Where your attention goes, your energy follows.
• True love helps us to connect with who we really are.
• What is true for you is not necessarily “the greater truth.”
• Inner peace flows from accepting where you are right now.
• Positive change occurs from awareness, acceptance and action.
• The brain cannot differentiate between what is real and what is imagined.
• When you connect with yourself at a deep level, you feel you belong.
• Rather than being faults, weaknesses or wrongs, our wounds can guide us to deeper connectedness with ourselves and each other.
• Two essential aspects of therapeutic holding are contact (we) and space (me).
• When you begin to accept the things you do not like about yourself, they can surprisingly become your allies or assets.
• When the value and beauty of our existence is recognized, we relax and open.
• Vows we make to ourselves are more important than vows we make to others.
• The skills of self-observation and self-inquiry are required to change behavior.
• When you love others with your heart, you have found your family of belonging.
• There are no values that are right for everyone, only values that are right for you.
• Psychological work focuses more on wounding; spiritual work focuses more on healing. Both are necessary and complementary.
• Affirmations, intentions and visualizations work because what you focus upon is often what you create for yourself.
• Your identity was shaped in part by your family environment; you are more than your identity.
• Not knowing that we are truly loved and lovable undermines our capacity to give and receive love freely.
• Your willingness to make a commitment to yourself and follow through no matter what is more important than what you choose or to whom you choose to commit.
• Desire and longing only become overwhelming when they attach themselves onto an external object or person that we imagine we must have in order to feel good; this fixation/obsession with the external becomes disempowering and enslaving.