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I hear people talk about “closure” a lot – they’ll say something like, I just need to get closure on this. It seems they see closure as a psychological door that can permanently shut away their emotional pain. Okay, if closure supposedly shuts away the emotional pain then where does it go? Nowhere. It remains…behind the door because of a …

It happened. I felt sad and conflicted and angry and hurt. No one said anything about it to me. No one offered me comfort.  They acted like it never happened. But now, they say forget it. I question if  was real – if what I’m feeling is real. I try to forget it, but I can’t – it comes back …

On February 28, 2012, over 70 women attended the Heart Spa which was held at 701 Whaley Street in Columbia. This year I hosted it with Palmetto Health Heart Hospital and it couldn’t have been better! Cindy Geiger, Marketing Manager for the Heart Hospital greeted everyone as they walked in the door. For the first half hour the women were treated …

“I never thought of forgiving my eight year-old self,” Amanda said. We were discussing her reactions to a talk I’d just given to a women’s group titled, How What We Say To Ourselves Affects How We Feel. In the talk, I’d asked the women to think about a mistake they’d made as an adult – one that was social in …

Have you ever left a doctor’s appointment with several pamphlets you were sure you’d read, only to end up moving them around the house until you finally threw them away? I have.  Although each pamphlet looked important, I almost never read them – probably because they seemed impersonal and kind of boring.    In health care, it seems that we’ve …