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Saying Goodbye

Posted on May 18, 2015 by metta

By Elizabeth Eiland Figueroa, LMSW   “Is your couch heavy?” a colleague asks me. She is buying my office furniture, and needs to plan how she will load it into her borrowed truck.  I think of all the emotional weight … Continue reading →

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Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful

Posted on June 5, 2014 by metta

By: Elizabeth Eiland Figueroa, LMSW  [Title from Susan Albers, Psy.D., author of Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful: How to End Your Struggle with Mindless Eating and Start Savoring Food with Intention and Joy (2008)] We all eat and drink, at … Continue reading →

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Grow Up!

Posted on July 2, 2013 by metta

By: Elizabeth Eiland, LMSW What does it mean to be an adult? And does age have anything to do with it? I would guess that most of us, as children, wished at some point to be grown up. For some, … Continue reading →

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The Already and the Not Yet: The Paradox of Acceptance and Change

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Elizabeth Eiland

by Elizabeth Eiland, LMSW   We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. ~Anne Lamott   Like many of us, I … Continue reading →

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