THE POWER OF METAPHORS FOR WRITING, FOR LIFE, FOR COMMUNITY You probably think you learned about metaphors in your freshman literature class, but, really, you’ve been using them from the time you began to talk.  If your mother kept a ‘baby book’, you will find […]

Building a community wellness program reminds me of my recent experience knitting my grandson’s sweater. Here I was happily knitting away and I was almost finished with the body of the sweater when I realized the front was completely wrong. 

A while back, my Wholebody Focusing partner Elizabeth and I decided to spend a weekend together.  We live far apart and I needed to fly to where she lives.  We called it our Focusing Spa Weekend because we intended to spend our time in Grounded […]

  “I am not truly free if I am taking  away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I cannot be free when my freedom is taken from me.  The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. Nelson Mandela Long Walk to […]

It’s amazing what a single donation and three months in Pakistan can accomplish! Pat Omidian has made many trips to Pakistan on behalf of Focusing Initiatives International (FII).   Her last one, for three months in early 2017, was made possible by a grant from a […]

You know how important it is to take care of yourself while taking care of others.  You have heard the flight attendant say: “put on your own oxygen mask before helping others.” Those of us committed to making the world a more connected, peaceful place […]