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Here’s what I do all by myself. I catch the bus two blocks from my house and go downtown. I’m not afraid. My mother said to sit near the driver, and I do. I talk to him sometimes. Other times I read.

Today, going downtown, I read the saddest part of “Little House on the Prairie”. The Ingalls’ dog turned around three times and then lay down in his bed and died. I cried on the bus. I was glad I had a handkerchief with me. The driver asked if I was OK, and I told him the book made me sad because t… Continue

Dear Readers, It is timely to go back in time and share with you the beginnings of THE ENCHANTED SELF. THE ENCHANTED SELF was birthed as all revolutionary theories are, suddenly in an 'Aha' moment. For me, after a combination of elements came together in what was literally an explosion in my mind, it happened. The elements were my private practice, my own life, my own therapies, and the women I interviewed not in my practice. All ignited into a major 'Aha' insight that changed my practice of psy… Continue