by Laura Kosak | Mar 27, 2017 | Personal Growth, Relationships
We all want to matter, we want our lives to matter – for it to mean something that we have lived. I mean that as a spiritual and psychological truth, not a political statement. During my graduate studies in clinical psychology I worked at a day treatment center...
by Laura Kosak | Mar 20, 2017 | Divorce Vaccine™, Parenting, Relationships
My son came upon the creation is this photo when he and his friends were taking a walk in the woods yesterday. It was a lovely sunny day, a sure herald of the welcome impending arrival of spring in Portland. It’s a long, gray, rainy winter around here and the...
by Laura Kosak | Mar 13, 2017 | Choice, Parenting, Personal Growth
After a busy weekend, and daylight savings time, Monday morning came. I looked at my To Do list, and thought about my priorities, and then discovered that both my sons were sick with colds and staying home. It was a Plan B Day. It reminded me of a story. We can learn...
by Laura Kosak | Mar 7, 2017 | Personal Growth, Relationships, Wedding Day
Who are your heroes? Maybe you’ve played the game, “if you could invite anyone in the world, living or dead, real or fiction, to dinner, whom would you invite?” It’s an interesting way of framing a conversation about our heroes. We all need...