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Living Large

On Saturday, I attended a memorial party for a dear friend of almost 50 years who passed two weeks ago. It was almost 50 years of laughter, support, secrets, wild outrageous adventures, and unlimited service. Her five kids followed her request to celebrate her life rather than mourn her death. It was filled with laughter, music, an open bar, and…

DorothyJune 20, 2024

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Do You Know Your Values?

This may sound like a strange question since, of course you do, is the logical response, yet… My LinkedIn profile says: Guiding Visionary Leaders Through Transition. Challenging existing paradigms, discovering innovative solutions, and honoring value-driven leadership, through personal transformation for success on all levels. Before working with someone, one of my questions is, what are the values you bring to…

DorothyApril 11, 2024

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What AI Can’t Deliver!

In a world where AI is having greater and greater input, there’s so much of ourselves we need to know about before we give all of who we are away. A client of mine, in the Middle East, has written a book showing what knowledge truly is. It certainly encompasses what we learn in school and through extensive reading, yet…

DorothyJanuary 23, 2024

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Christmas Expectations

Most newsletters sent out today or tomorrow are usually wonderfully inspiring and ethereal. That is such a gift. However, I would like to provide another approach. As a psychotherapist in private practice for 25+ years, this time of year – November 15th to January 15th, extra appointments were always the norm…. Why? Expectations. It is true that this time of…

DorothyDecember 17, 2023

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Your Call To An Expanded Purpose

Have you noticed that if you followed your heart when you began working, or perhaps chose to listen to your heart later, that at some point you still may have found yourself surviving rather than living? You were doing what you loved and chose yet somehow it didn’t seem to fit any more? What a gift… That happens because you…

DorothyFebruary 17, 2023

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It’s An Odd World

Have you ever noticed that the most skilled, qualified folks, have a large sense of insecurity or uncertainty about so many things they are not expected to know? Or that the folks who are just starting out have an amazing sense of all-knowingness? A theoretical physicist I know will not feel he has accomplished anything until he equals or exceeds…

DorothyDecember 22, 2022

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My Brother-in-Law Died

My beautiful sister who has spent the past 30 years alongside her husband has lost him, and the world has lost a man of amazing humor, goodness, and grace. Listening to the many, many, people Mike has supported over the years as they “walked with Bill” brought tears to the eyes of all of us in attendance at his Celebration…

DorothyOctober 31, 2022

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Values and the Gift of Joy

This is that time of year for graduations, weddings, and more. With so much shifting and changing due to Covid none of these events are quite the same as we remember them, but they are still such a delight and cause for celebration, nonetheless. This week was a graduation from middle school and two high school graduations. It is such…

DorothyJune 17, 2022

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A Journey We are Walking Together

When you are in business for decades, you are so very aware of the ups, downs, jumps ahead, slow roll, and the “What’s?????” that come along, (I’m being a lady here since another phrase came to mind.) A couple weeks ago a wonderful new friend I have been blessed with reintroduced me to someone I had met but not really…

DorothyApril 1, 2022

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St. Patrick’s Day It Is

Growing up in South Boston, Massachusetts, Saint Paddy’s Day was a day in which all the schools and businesses, other than the bars and package stores, were closed. The annual St. Paddy’s Day parade was a celebration of the Irish heritage Southie folks were so proud to claim. The standard activity included the Kennedy’s in their convertible waving at all…

DorothyMarch 17, 2022