Mental Health

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)

“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)

April 14, 2025 Nicole Weiss , , No comments

‘What will you do with your one wild and precious life?’

Taken from ‘The Summer Day’ by poet Mary Oliver, it’s a question I put to my coaching and therapy clients. It’s a question that’s relevant whether they have achieved all they set out to achieve in life or find themselves in a stagnant career and want to pivot.

At some point, we all wake up and wonder if we are living the life we want.

My first step with any client facing this dilemma is to unpack what it really means to them.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

Nicole Weiss“What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver)
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Be More Codependant

Be More Codependant

February 10, 2021 Nicole Weiss , , No comments

There’s a certain type of client who comes to me with a very specific issue they wish to resolve.

Co-dependency.

The image these clients present to the world is a passive one, but that’s far from the truth. Their need to be less dependent is usually linked to just one person or one relationship but what surprises them is my response to their ‘problem’, which goes something like this:

“What I really want is for you to become dependent on way more people”.

This sounds at odds with our individualistic, egocentric culture but let’s take a walk back in time.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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Acceptance (or the Art of Loving Our Imperfect Selves)

Acceptance (or the Art of Loving Our Imperfect Selves)

September 21, 2017 Nicole Weiss , No comments

All due respect to Elton John, but I’ve found acceptance—not ‘sorry’—seems to be the hardest word.

We crave it on an almost cellular level—in fact, our very existence was once tied to acceptance from our tribe. Today, we seek it all the wrong places from the size of our paycheck to our number of “likes” on Facebook. We search for it from strangers and spouses alike. We try to fill our acceptance vacuum with everything from boxed wine and Netflix to spin class and Xanax.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

Nicole WeissAcceptance (or the Art of Loving Our Imperfect Selves)
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Nicole’s 4 Steps To Finding Your Life’s Flavor

Nicole’s 4 Steps To Finding Your Life’s Flavor

May 23, 2017 Nicole Weiss , No comments

One of the biggest tricks to plugging in and thinking possible is finding your flavor.

Why do I use the word “flavor”? Because I want to help you to get you out of your head and into your heart and soul. So much of our programming has to do with thinking. And thinking is great! For some things. We need our thinking brain for math and science and maps and all kinds of other logic-based reasoning, but what we know about happiness is that it is NOT one size fits all principle.  There is no one correct solution for everyone, the way there might be to a math or science problem. Therefore thinking only is not the sole key toward achieving happiness. We must also include the heart.

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

Nicole WeissNicole’s 4 Steps To Finding Your Life’s Flavor
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Helplessness – Then the Call to Action

Helplessness – Then the Call to Action

December 5, 2016 Nicole Weiss , 6 comments

How do you feel when someone comes to you with pain…emotional or otherwise? What happens in your body? What do you want to do? What do you want to say? 

Now picture when you are in pain…emotional or otherwise, what is that you want? What is it that you most want people to say or do?

Nicole C Weiss LCSW

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