My interview with Barbara Biziou, spiritual teacher and ritual lady, was released on August 8. Listen to the podcast here. My story about the interview is below.
Ritual-Making: Feeding Our Hunger for the Sacred
In the new Crow’s Feet Podcast, I talk with Barbara Biziou about using rituals to bring the sacred into everyday life.
In my psychotherapy practice, there is one question I always ask that seems the most difficult for my clients yet is an integral part of my assessment. Oddly enough, this question is one of the most intimate of all the many intrusive questions I ask.
And the question is not about sex. For one reason or another, most of the people who come to see me are often embarrassed about it and unlikely to speak of it unless I bring it up.
It is the question: are there any spiritual beliefs that are important to you? I always wait until the end of the session, until the person has known me for a while and talked their way through their childhood, relationships, and health and mental health issues. It is a hard question for many people, but during the 25-plus years of my experience, I have recognized a person’s spiritual connections as one of the most powerful factors I can engage to help them heal. Continue reading
I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Mildred Shropshire and Theodore Felsberg Jr. I was raised in Galloway Township and graduated from Oakcrest High School in southern New Jersey in the Sigma 67 Class in 1967. I attended Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, and graduated from Stockton University in Galloway, NJ, in 1974 with degrees in Philosophy, English Literature, and (almost) music. After that, I taught piano to local children and adults in the 70s and 80s, had a catering business, "Jean's in the Kitchen," from 1980 to 1992, then went to graduate school at Rutgers Camden to obtain my Masters's Degree in Social Work. Since 1996 I have worked as a therapist and counselor, first in New Jersey for five years and then, when our family moved to Maine, in Augusta, Maine, for five years. For the past 17 years, I have had a private psychotherapy practice in Gardiner, Maine, During the pandemic, I packed up and moved my office home to Washington, Maine. On the year of my seventieth birthday, I decided to write and self-publish a memoir about our parents' World War II romance, Dear Milly. I began blogging on Medium in earnest in 2020 and have posted more than 265 stories, including a block of stories about my catering career which I hope to turn into a book in the next year. I have been writing and collecting poetry since childhood but never showed it to anyone. Recently, I learned how valuable it could be to join a group for feedback and support for my writing. I have taken several courses and written many poems, and recently had several poems accepted for publication. Off in a new direction, again.
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