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It’s easy to get caught up in negativity. Between the constant news cycle, world events and social media, it can seem like the world is closing in on you. But please remember: Protecting your [...]

A few years ago, I stumbled upon a poem by Mary Oliver entitled “The Uses of Sorrow”: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a [...]

Coping Pre-Covid When I came to Sanctuary Centers I was a wreck. I couldn’t deal with myself, let alone a global pandemic. I didn’t know anything about mental illness. In my life, in my inner [...]

Coronavirus is here… and the time has come for us to take it seriously.  Of course, it’s possible that—when we’re looking back on this years from now—our preventative measures may look [...]

Animal therapy has been around for a very long time. The ancient Greeks understood the salutary effects animals had, and the Roman Emperor Caligula was so fond of his horse Incitatus that he was [...]

While therapy is taking on new and exciting forms, animals have long been used for supportive and therapeutic purposes. People experience something different with animals, they feel they can be [...]

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. -Harriet Goldhor Lerner [...]

A few years ago, I stumbled upon a poem by Mary Oliver entitled “The Uses of Sorrow”: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a [...]

Years of abuse and neglect made it difficult to inhabit my own body. Over time, I learned that my body was not a safe place to reside. Rather than serving as an instrument of play, pleasure, and [...]