The Best Advice Your Mother Never Gave You

“Every now and then I pick up a book I want to share with everyone I meet. I immediately felt connected to Cathy Lumsden’s book. As your eyes move down each page of this book you will see how you can quickly and dramatically improve your life. Cathy clearly explains transformational ideas, and then goes on to give powerful examples of how the ideas have worked for others. You will love where Cathy takes you, I could not put it down. Buy two and give one to your best friend.”

Bob Proctor
From the movie “The Secret’
Author of “You Were Born Rich”

A Mother’s love is like nothing else… A blanket of warmth, a security blanket keeping you safe A blanket that sometimes ends up dragging on the floor A corner of the blanket pressed into your eye. It’s a blanket of love that always can be found It’s in every room, On every couch, bed and [...]

Here is a poem one of my clients wrote about her life. I feel it is a great description of how we all wear masks. The Clown He lives only for the joy of others Gives until his heart is empty Filled only by the love he creates. Who is the Clown? When the make [...]

Why Do Women Keep Attracting the Wrong Men Over and Over Again? All of us choose our partners through a set of glasses created when we were very young children. These “lens” are basically composed of belief systems, which to a large extend influence our choices, behaviors and emotions. These patterns become etched in our [...]

Many of us know logically that we need to love ourselves before we can genuinely love someone else. However, emotionally loving ourselves can be a totally different story. So how do we learn to love ourselves? First of all, knowing who you are, what your values, strengths and limitations are is a good place to [...]

In true dialogue both sides are willing to listen, understand, not necessarily agree, and look at alternative perspectives. I find that 75% of conflicts in relationships are due to trying to convince the other person how right we are and how wrong they are. Turn it around today….listen with your 2 ears and then express. [...]

The Power of Your Brain – Recipe for Happiness! My passion as a psychotherapist, mother and woman is to shift individual’s self-limiting beliefs and old coping styles that cause pain and unhappiness. I call this Brainsense. Given this is the beginning of a brand new year, I’d like to share a recipe. My intent is [...]

Every single one of us consciously and unconsciously have belief systems about ourselves, the world and other people. It is the self-limiting beliefs that create pain in our lives. The four most common self-limiting beliefs I see regularly in my psychology practice are: I’m not important/I don’t matter, I’m alone, I’m not good enough/a failure, [...]

“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” (The Talmud, 200 C.E.) If one studies and reflects on this statement we would change our lives forever. We see life through our own lenses, our beliefs and think that it is reality. Guess what….it is not reality. So for example, if you are [...]

What makes you feel loved in a relationship? Check all the items that make you feel lovable. Someone listens someone spends time with me someone is attentive   Someone takes me for dinner Someone buys me gifts Someone buys me flowers   Someone hugs me Someone makes love to me Someone holds my hand   [...]