Jay Matthews

A traditional ego-psychology analysis typically focuses on analyzing the patient’s inner life as the main source of problems. In contrast, a relational analyst emphasizes not only the patient’s inner life, but also the mutual relational dynamics of the therapeutic interaction in the session.

In other words, stepping back and allowing trees to arrive naturally on their own time is, in many places, not an option.

From the description: Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person... See more

A step-by-step recipe for beauty:

" We cannot make sense of these events, nor are we meant to process so much loss and be expected to simply keep our heads down and keep moving, show up to work, show up for others – and yet that is exactly what we are asked to do, what we have to do.. . And remember we don’t have time to mourn, that this happens so often it isn’t even a question,... See more

That is the predicate of the slender, poetic 1993 novel  Einstein's Dreams by physicist Alan Lightman — a book about time and the tricks we play on ourselves to bear our transience, a book that does for time what Alain de Botton’s  The Course of Love does for love: punctuating a fictional world with philosophical quickenings, thought experiments,... See more

This is freedom unmasked. We have a right to live as we wish. Until we can’t. Our reckless history of human habitation in the American West is on a collision course with the climate crisis. Climate Change is not a hoax. It is real and it is a fire-breathing dragon blowing fire at our doors.

"Geography is central to the survival of humanity... we are now geographical leviathans. Our actions make things happen so extensively, quickly, and powerfully that we seem on the verge of rendering the very fabric of nature, social relations and meaning ."