I am passionate about empowering people who ask for my help to approach life with a courageous agility, replete with a life view and a repertoire of supportive strategies and tools from which they can draw. Well into my second half-century of life, I can confidently say that this is the mission around which my entire life has revolved.

My philosophy is that life is a messy proposition and that there is no one way to rein it in. I believe that you are here to live life fully alongside others with whom you are in relationship, but that you generally are not capable of doing this in a neat or predictable fashion all the way through. You are born with relative strengths and deficits. Sometimes the very deficits become the gifts, and the reverse also is true.

Life events are lessons; generally they are presented to you in the way of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, and fame and disrepute. You cannot avoid these, and you are no more or no less when you experience any of them. What is important is how you act when they present themselves. I also agree with Einstein that there are two ways to live your life: as if nothing is a miracle or as if everything is a miracle.

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