Well Being Psychotherapy

09/21/2026

Stacey knows what's really going on with AI companies and what we need to do. "The day before Anthropic’s announcement, WIRED reported that OpenAI had approached Congress with a question: If the leading AI companies coordinate with one another to slow development, would that violate federal antitrust law?

Competitors agreeing to restrict production is one of the oldest antitrust problems in the book. So these companies are asking Washington for permission to coordinate—to form, in effect, the OPEC of artificial intelligence.

We have seen this play before.
..At the same moment these companies are asking Washington for permission to coordinate with one another, their political operations are pushing Washington to strip states of the authority to regulate AI at all. Their PACs are funding candidates who will not fight back." Use local and state authority!

Tech CEOs are asking Washington for permission to police themselves while working to strip states and communities of the power to protect us.

08/18/2026

Important information if you are a trauma survivor who gets activated by certain calming techniques like breathing, body scan or meditation. It’s not your fault! Pay attention to what happens. Other techniques are just better for you right now. "If you have ever tried deep breathing during a moment of overwhelm and felt your panic rise instead of fall, you are not broken. If body scans make you feel more dissociated, not less. If being told to slow down and go inward sends your nervous system into a spin rather than settling it, that is not a failure of willpower, effort or commitment to your own healing."

On why deep breathing, mindfulness and grounding techniques backfire for many trauma survivors, and what actually helps instead

07/27/2026

Profound.

D.W. Winnicott's unsettling theory about the catastrophe you're still waiting for

07/24/2026

Climate grief is real and deep

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

07/04/2026

This writer explains this dynamic eloquently. I work with my clients to unburden and heal. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E7WypEn5L/?mibextid=wwXIfr

06/29/2026

Has activity become mere busyness?

The issue is not how much we do. The issue is whether, in the midst of doing, we remain intimate with the life that is actually unfolding before us.

Has work become another place where the heart quietly disappears beneath habit, identity, accomplishment or concern?

We rarely ask whether the heart remains alive within our activity.

There are ways of engaging in activity in which the heart gradually disappears beneath the weight of self-concern, until one no longer encounters the world directly, but only one's own momentum moving through it.

Zen invites us to examine not the quantity of our activity but the quality of our participation.

There is no place to live except with the life that is completely before us.

Roshi Joan Halifax quotes, Raising a Broom, 6/27/26

Roshi Joan Halifax explores the Zen teaching on work, busyness, and the living heart of practice, drawing on samu, nyohō, raising a broom, and a classic koan.

06/24/2026

“A deep acceptance of life “just as it is” allows you to be more fully present in your life moment by moment, no matter how difficult or how sweet it is, and it empowers you to act more from your deepest values. Regardless of the circumstances of your life at any given time, your experience is richer, more alive.”

― Phillip Moffitt, Dancing with Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering

06/11/2026

05/29/2026

Breathe, you are alive.

05/22/2026

"According to a survey from the American Psychological Association, 76 percent of Americans are concerned about the future of the nation. This is now the leading cause of stress, above the economy or work or money." Robert Reich