Focusing Tip #588 – “My clients are identified with parts… and they reject my attempts to help them disidentify.”
Steffani writes: At times I sense that my clients are identified with parts of them. And that is not surprising! But sometimes…
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Focusing Tip #587 – I feel calmer, but is my life really changing?
Do you wonder when and if the calmer feelings will translate into real life change? A Reader writes: I’m taking a Focusing…
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Focusing Tip #586 – If you are faced with illness or other losses, how do you remake a life?
Paula writes: My situation is that I developed a chronic illness and had to leave my high powered career on disability. It’s…
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Focusing Tip #585 – My Life is at a Crossroads
“My big challenges have been building confidence, finding courage and a sense of self…” A Reader writes: My life is at a…
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Focusing Tip #584 – “Isn’t radical acceptance for everything in this world tantamount to allowing evil and cruel acts to occur?”
Michelle writes: I have another question about radical acceptance. I have a part that believes that having radical acceptance for everything in…
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Focusing Tip #583 – “I find it hard to have radical acceptance for myself.”
Michelle writes: I’m wondering if you can clarify something for me. You often talk about the importance of “radical acceptance” especially within…
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Focusing Tip #582 – Are your physical symptoms something to get rid of, or something to connect with and listen to?
Kim writes: I am currently working with a nutritional coach to help me with some digestive issues. In addition to nutritional approaches,…
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Focusing Tip #581 – Is this tightness a felt sense?
What if you want to do Focusing with a vague, hard-to-describe felt sense but what you feel isn’t hard to describe? Patricia…
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Focusing Tip #580 – Why do I lose interest in so many things?
Do you get energized about doing something for yourself and then lose interest? Over and over? Greg writes: My question has to…
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Focusing Tip #579 – Does it all feel like too much tragedy, too much upset and instability?
Many of you are asking: How do I handle how overwhelmed and anxious and sad I feel at the terrible things that…
