by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog
Tribute To Love This week our community lost a friend suddenly and the shock has us all struggling for a place to land. Ellen was a friend we met through our local knitting group – a group that has remained intact and in touch for over 9 years. The shop where we met...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Dec 30, 2018 | Blog
From the me to the “we”. Practicing communal gratitude does not seem like an easy road – first off you can’t make it compulsory. Forcing gratitude, especially when required by those in positions of power, is just another abuse of power and surely would only foster...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Dec 26, 2018 | Blog
“The long arc of history bends towards justice.” Dr Martin Luther King I promised that I would tie Gratitude to the transformation possibilities in our world every day. This has been a week that would easily provoke stress and a loss of hope. From the last minute...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog
As we enter the last week before Christmas, we can certainly be focused on getting while we are busy giving. What to get who, and how much to spend can overwhelm us with anything But gratitude. The latin root of gratitude is gratia which is the same root as Grace....
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog
It is not uncommon for us to describe our lives in terms of the struggles- what we have overcome and how we did it – its akin to what I said in the first post – which was we focus more on what isn’t working than what is. When I first came to San Francisco so many...
