To mature women: Regardless of your age, size, shape, color, mental or physical health or political situation, the glorious free and visionary you is always alive within you.

A mature woman, decades after eating disorder recovery, may live a life fraught with relationship, career and self-esteem difficulties. You are no longer starving, binging or purging, but you still suffer from painful issues in your life, particularly self-doubt.

If you went through effective psychotherapy you found your way to ending your eating disorder behaviors. As a mature woman today, maybe you rarely think of those starving, binging, food-obsessed days and nights.

Yet underlying psychic structures of the eating disorder can still be present, ready to spring into action when you are threatened by more than you can bear or allow yourself to see or know.

                                                                                       Secret to success journal

What’s your journal for? Do you know the secret to making your journal a guide to success?

• You miss the value of using a success journal if your journal is just a dumping ground where you throw in your thoughts, feelings, dreams, things you said or wish you had said, to-do lists, and ideas, essentially treating it like a trash bin. You get only the minimum value from this process.  It’s like the trash bin in your kitchen. You are not littering your home or the counters. You’ve stopped any smell from developing. You prevented any vermin from being attracted. You send the contents to a larger trash bin and then the city dump.
• A better approach is to use your success journal as a clearinghouse. You review the contents regularly to ensure you haven’t lost anything valuable. Most of the contents may not be worth saving. However, some of it reminds you of something you've forgotten. Some of it brings up feelings that surprise you. You may want to reconsider some of it.
• But the secret to a success journal is to make it a conversation. Creating an honest dialogue with it is the secret to getting total value from your journal. 

                                                     Swans mate for life. They are loyal in love and fierce when needed.

Love in Psychotherapy Is the Heart of Healing and Growth

Swans mate for life. They glide across the water in graceful pairs, loyal and bonded. But swans are not only gentle symbols of beauty and devotion—they are fierce when they need to be. They protect what they love. They defend their young. Real love—whether in nature, in relationships, or within ourselves—is not soft sentimentality. It is commitment, resilience, and strength. It is showing up, over and over again, even when it’s hard. This kind of love is also at the heart of psychotherapy.

We don’t often talk about love when we talk about therapy. We talk about “working on issues” or “getting help,” but love? That can feel uncomfortable—suspicious even. Yet, in my decades of work as a psychotherapist, I have found this to be true: Love in psychotherapy—expressed through trust, compassion, empathy, and deep listening—is what heals. Love is what allows us to grow and achieve emotional growth.

The Hidden Loneliness of High Achievers:

Understanding What's Missing

Hidden loneliness is a reality for many high achievers who, despite their accomplishments, struggle with feelings of dissatisfaction and isolation.  Despite outward success, a lack of deep, trustworthy human connection often remains unaddressed, affecting their goalsetting, vision, and decision-making.

This article examines the causes of hidden loneliness and explores how trustworthy psychotherapy can help foster genuine relationships that enrich life, improve decision-making, and enhance work satisfaction.

Hidden Loneliness Affects Leaders

 I've seen company heads, well-known individuals in the entertainment field, business owners, people in high management positions,