Welcome!

This site is about making personal change happen…and to succeed in making such change, it would no doubt help to know better just how to go about it.
 
So…you might begin here with a metaphor of your mind that is very useful in understanding how it works…because, well, knowing how it works – and doesn’t – makes “making change” more likely.  Or, try:
 
ELEPHANT/RIDER
SITTING QUIETLY
LIFE PRACTICES
Using CBT

SQ

meditation, mindfulness, reconditioning
Sitting Quietly (SQ) is first a self-care practice, one of calming renewal and connection…it’s also “the vehicle” of introspection, enabling discovery, insight…and healing.

LP

duck, ducklings, mallard
Life Practices are particular activities we engage on a more or less regular basis, using skillsets we learn and develop, and that serve to make our lives meaningful, productive, and rewarding…

SQ is an evidenced-based way to actually retrain the Elephant and effect lasting change…