The Traveling Psychologist Blog

    “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.” ~Matthew 6:22-23     As little as 5 years ago,

Over the years, I have spoken to hundreds of successful leaders all who are leading the best way they know how. They were taught the “trade” of leadership by mentors, colleagues, old bosses, and by simply watching how others around

The Roller Coaster Principle “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” ~Shakespeare OK, I admit it…I overthink almost everything. I sometimes feel as if I can't help it. Something happens and my brain just kicks in. I dissect

It Was 1979…and This Was What I Wanted! “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~Neale Donald Walsch I was nine. Back then I answered to “Chrissy.” My good friends know I refuse to answer to this name now and if

Traveling Psychologist Blog Date: January 3, 2022 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona STRIKE FIVE…LEARNING TO LISTEN TO THE SIGNS It all started with an itch to travel again. Having been locked up in my apartment alone for over a year due to the pandemic, I decided

Traveling Psychologist Blog Date: November 23, 2021 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Nat, one of the many friends I met here in Cape Town, taught me a phrase used by the locals… “don’t be kok, be lekker!” To translate for the non-Capetonians, “kok”

Traveling Psychologist Blog Date: November 6, 2021 Location: Cape Town, South Africa   YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR YOUR LIFE For those of you who know me and have followed me for awhile you are aware that I am an avid world-traveler. Like many of

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"Should you shield the canyon from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings." Elizabeth Kübler-Ross In 2006 my father was diagnosed with cancer. A few weeks after receiving this news, he came home from work one day