Developing an illness has many ramifications, not least of course that the person afflicted has to endure a lot of physical pain and discomfort. Beyond that, he or she has been handed a new project: figuring out how to fit in doctor appointments, dietary changes, treatments that cause a lot of other physical symptoms, medications […]

What Are the Four Quadrants and How Do They Apply to Chronic Illness? The Four Quadrants model comes from Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, a metatheory of what it is to be a human being in this universe.  The four quadrants are the four different aspects into which we can divide our reality: Our personal individual […]

Perfectionism starts very early in life.   Our parents probably had fixed ideas about how we should speak, what we should wear, and what we should eat. Maybe they wanted us to be a banker or a priest or nurse. Maybe we were handed down a political point of view or a religious tradition. It’s likely […]

Has Your Life Gotten Off Track? Do you ever feel like your life is so far off track that you don’t know how you’ll ever get back on?  Maybe you’ve lost your job, maybe you’re in recovery from an addiction that has cost you everything, maybe you have an illness that keeps you from following […]