Category Archives: Healing

Intuition: Muh Spiritual Adventures

In psychology, we think of intution as knowing without knowing how we know, something that happens without conscious reasoning. In psychotherapy and counseling, we encourage attention to it, because acceessing deeper and broader knowings and feelings is key to the … Continue reading

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Reinventing Dr. Ding

Don’t worry, chilluns. Dr. Ding ain’t going anywheres. I remain as obdurate, apophenic, and (according to me dear Irish mudder) “raunchy” as ever. I just stumbled across this cool post on the subject of grieving at ReinventingErica and wanted to … Continue reading

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2007 Reflections, 2008 Dreams

Dr. Ding never was too good at New Year’s resolutions; I make them all backwards and counterintuitive-like. Dr. Ding once made a resolution to eat a LOT more chocolate, and well looky looky…it’s good for you now! Cause and effect, … Continue reading

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Friday Diatribe

Dr. Ding hasn’t written a good, old-fashioned, ass-whuppin’ Friday Diatribe in a long time, but here goes. Life isn’t all about being smart, or funny, or talented, or cute, or athletic, or rich, or brave. It also isn’t all about … Continue reading

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Angel Tattoo

Minus the farmer’s tan, Dr. Ding feels that this angel tattoo might be an appropriate selection for her 40th birthday goal, which, of course is 2 years off. For those of you just tuning in, Dr. Ding is planning on … Continue reading

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Dear Dr. Ding

Oh Dr. Ding: I have lost two family members within the last 5 years. One I was close to, she was my older brother’s ex-wife, and I’m taking her death pretty hard because she was like an older sister to … Continue reading

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