When I was young I had the opportunity to drive a cotton harvesting truck. A friend of mine had a farm which grew cotton and it was harvesting time. The truck was loud, burdensome and difficult to control. One had to drive very straight for the truck would pick several rows of cotton at a time. […]
Author: juliannejackson
I am a therapist at Family Counseling Services, a division of Lifelines Counseling Services in Mobile, Alabama.
A Ladleful of Simplicity…
I recently was told this story… Once there was a woman who wanted to buy a new soup ladle. She went to a silversmith and he showed her varied ornate and embellished soup ladles. She asked, “Do you have anything else to show me?” He brought out a ladle that was plain and free of any embellishment […]
Bridges…
Life is often like a bridge… we are between this way and that way…stopped in the middle…sometimes feet frozen in indecision. Is it easier to walk backwards…or harder to walk forward? In a place of fear…not wanting to stagnate in the past…but intimidated by the mystery of the future. What can one do? There is […]
Grief and Helping to Grow a New Tail…
Isn’t it fascinating how some types of lizards are able to regenerate new tails upon losing their own? Scientists have made huge headways in discovering how this process of regeneration happens in hopes that one day in the future this can be applied to humans after spinal cord injuries. When a large scale crisis occurs […]
Brave Enough to Bare it All?…
Alicia Keys has caused quite a stir with her recent #nomakeup movement. Showing up for a photo shoot barefaced after a workout, her photographer asked to photograph her “as is”. She admitted being nervous at first, but in the end experienced a real freedom and transformation from uncovering her face and being photographed in all her natural […]
