Fish in the Water

Sandstorms are violent wind storms that occur in the desert when high winds lift particles of sand into the air thus unleashing a turbulent and suffocating cloud of sand. They can occur unexpectedly and last for as little as a few minutes or as long as a few months. Regardless of how long they last,…

Recall a time when you were in high school and were in love with someone who rejected you. Can you remember how terrible the pain seemed to be at the time? For some people, this pain leads to lifelong scars, to a pattern of not trusting other people and avoiding opportunities for real intimacy. Look…

Suppose there is a bus and you are the driver. On this bus weʼve got a bunch of passengers.  Some of them are scary, and they are dressed up in black leather jackets and they have switchblade knives. What happens is that you are driving along and the passengers start threatening you, telling you what…

Think of yourself as an expanding balloon. At the edge of the balloon is a zone of growth, where the same question keeps being asked: “Are you big enough to have this?” No matter how big you get, thereʼs always more “big” to get, and the same question keeps being asked. When an issue presents itself,…

An Acceptance and Commitment metaphor A farmer has an old, useless mule that falls into a dry, abandoned well. Upon realizing that he is stuck, the mule becomes afraid and begins to bray. The farmer, who hears the mule crying, decides that instead of pulling him out, he will just bury the creature in the…

An acceptance and commitment metaphor.  You know that horrible feedback screech that a public address system sometimes makes? It happens when a microphone is positioned too close to a speaker. Then when a person on stage makes the least little noise, it goes into the microphone; the sound comes out the speakers amplified and than…