ForCryingOutLove

Great love and great suffering can transform us.  The questions and stories posted here center around suffering and love. May they inspire and reinforce your journey to become more whole and to be led by your heart and spirit.    

For 40 plus years I was a clinical psychologist and fulltime psychotherapist who also practiced psychoanalysis, Internal Family Systems, and spiritual direction.  All my professional and personal life experience pointed to the confluence of love, suffering, and spirit. 

Love and suffering break us open helping us see and move beyond our limited selves. We then may become more whole.  Our hearts and spirits can begin to lead us.
  
I view prayer as being as natural as crying out with hurt or longing or joy; as relational as call-and-response; and its results as experience-near as love. Prayer is healing then the way love is healing.