Dear Colette, I have been struggling with a loss of a relationship that lasted nine years. It ended in betrayal and really no answers as to why or what I did wrong. I’m still in love with this person. I lost my lover, my companion and my best friend. No matter what I do I…
Setting the scene: Over coffee, two women are discussing their interest in sharing erotic material with their husbands. Another woman at the next table is shocked at the context of the conversation given one of the women’s role as a spiritual adviser within the community. “Her behavior surprises me. She’s supposed to be so…
Change is definitely here, and in the midst of our personal transformations where we are most vulnerable, how insulting that we be betrayed! Who said it was ok that Chaos would kick Certainty’s backside in the most sacrilegious manner? The horror of it all! Therapists’ offices will be packed this week with existential angst.…
Dear Colette, I am on the verge of self-publishing my spiritual memoir, and I saw my extra weight as me carrying my unfulfilled life purpose on my body, but also carrying spiritual light in my body. You speak about carrying the weight of the world on our bodies so I thought you might have some…
Dear Colette, I have an extreme problem. Family members are controlling my life to a complete destruction. This is a confirmed fact. I refuse to just be trampled by them but I do not know what to do. I have tried everything to fight their negative influences and lies but they continue prevail in their…
Dear Colette, I recently had a visit with a healer/intuitive. During our initial meeting, I mentioned that I was thinking of going back to school and the healer/intuitive responded by saying that he felt a lot of power around it and that the energy was strong and positive around my going back to school.…
Hi Collette, I am writing for your insight as to how to move forward in my life. I went through cancer four years ago and am in slow recovery, still feeling a lot of fatigue. Both my parents have passed away in the last six months. I lost my mother late last year from cancer,…
Okay, it’s May and you’re wondering where the year went already, right? Chances are you’ve survived tax season, you are in a routine with your schedule and oh, yeah, you forgot your New Year’s Resolutions, if you made them. In a previous blog post, “When Your Spring Hasn’t Sprung Yet” I shared some strategies for helping…
You logically know that the bad moods and frustrations of your colleagues or friends/families are not yours to own but that doesn’t stop many of us from feeling enmeshed and bombarded by other people’s feelings. We are pretty sure the yucky feelings we have don’t really belong to us but we emotionally and physically…
For many people who experience empathy overload we often feel that there is too much to handle in our lives. We struggle with sorting everything out and feeling as though we are alone in the task of making sure everything turns out well. Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are not alone. …
