By: Alisa Schneidman Yesterday, I was thinking this is Children of Alcoholics Week, and I needed to write something.  I was drawing a...

By: Alisa Schneidman February holds so many special dates.  Dylan’s birthday (the rest of the world calls it Valentine’s Day), The House...

NOBODY DOES WINTER NAPS LIKE MY CATS... By: Alisa Schneidman Happy New Year to all of you. I am not big on Holidays, it’s so busy and...

BY: Alisa Schneidman Hi everyone, Typically, I send out a newsletter on the 15th of the month, but I made the decision to hold off until...

Compassion- not this word. I can hear a part of me dreading this, literally saying, “ugh, do I have to?” Yes, I really do. Seeing that...

Courage is one of the qualities of Self-energy that all of my parts readily recognize and appreciate in another person....The courage I have

Playfulness is threatening to a lot of parts because it brings feelings of joy and expansiveness. Wait, what? Why would that be threatening?

By: Alisa Schneidman Next up in our series of Self Energy words is Confidence and it the is the word I dreaded writing about- says a...

By: Alisa Schneidman Connection. It is the “C” word of the month. I am going to stop here and Clarify (another C word of Self Energy)....