I spoke at a workshop on extremist groups last week

by Lisa Kohn | Jun 17, 2019 | Recovery

It was an amazing week. I was in Scotland, where I hadn’t been since the late 80s when I went back to visit my friends from when I spent a semester at the Uni there in the early 80s. I was in Stirling and walked the Uni. I was in Edinburgh. I saw old friends and made...

Beauty is all around me…am I noticing it?

by Lisa Kohn | Jun 10, 2019 | Recovery

The sun is shining. The breeze is whispering through the trees. The wind chimes are chiming. The birds are chirping. There is so much beauty all around me. Am I noticing it? Each day – each moment – I have a choice. Left to its own devices, my mind can swirl with...

What are the other dumb things that I believe?

by Lisa Kohn | Jun 3, 2019 | Recovery

Whenever my clients tell me it’s like they have me whispering in their ears – like the cartoon angels and devils sitting on the shoulders of cartoon characters and whispering in their ears – I apologize wholeheartedly. I know my mind can be a scary place to be inside...

A good name for god is “not me”

by Lisa Kohn | May 27, 2019 | Recovery

This isn’t my line. (It’s Anne Lamott’s line.) But I think it’s a good line. Whatever your thoughts are about god (or God, or G-d, or goddess, or any other power greater than yourself), at least for me, it’s a great reminder that it’s not me. As I’ve written before, I...

You get to choose how you feel no matter what

by Lisa Kohn | May 13, 2019 | Recovery

Sometimes I remember this. Sometimes I get this. Sometimes I can stop myself as I sink into worry or fear or frustration and pull myself out. Sometimes I can, and sometimes I can’t. But I’m working on it more and more each day. I don’t mean ignoring or glossing over...

I was best friends with the Messiah’s children

by Lisa Kohn | Apr 15, 2019 | Hope and Amazement, Recovery

Many people tell me that they couldn’t do what I’m doing. Somehow the fact that I’ve pretty much bared my soul (and my insecurities and anxieties) to friends, family, clients, and strangers – and that I do it over and over again, and more and more, each time I speak...