A Holistic Health & Wellness Center
History
The Centre for Human Flourishing LLC is an independent health & wellness boutique offering Psychotherapy | Health & Wellness Coaching | and Consultation. The focus of the services I offer is on health, happiness, and human flourishing or eudaimonia. This focus, as it relates to psychotherapeutic services, does not disavow or disregard the significance or potential severity of psychological and emotional disorders, emotional distress, discomfort, or disturbing experiences but instead views all symptoms as meaningful, seeks to understand, embrace, and work with and through uncomfortable, unpleasant, distressing and disturbing experiences with an eye toward human psychological & emotional growth, development and maturity: the integration of all aspects of being, the exercise of good judgment, and the development of practical wisdom.
“When confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing fate that cannot be changed,
what matters most is to nobly bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best,
which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph,
to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. . . .
When we are not able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”
~ Viktor Frankl
The Centre for Human Flourishing is the harvest of a life characterized by broad contradictory experiences. Obstacles. Hurdles. Midwestern working class upbringing. Emotionally traumatic experiences. Grief. Loss. Experiences of marriage and divorce, custody battles, remarriage, & the formation of a blended family. Roles including military spouse, single parent, attorney & itinerant United Methodist minister's wife, and then a widow . . . all before I earned my bachelor's degree. On the brighter side, experiences of kindness and charity, in the Christian sense of the word, inspired my journey. As did all the beautiful, strong & courageous people I encountered along the way. Extensive travel within this country and overseas, including living & working for a time in Glasgow, Scotland broadened my perspective further. The English spelling of Centre is a tribute to my beloved late “mum” & “pops” | Bill & Cathy Craik from Old Drumchapel, Glasgow, Scotland.
Mission
Led by a search for wisdom, sustained by faith, inspired by love, and determined by a hardy intrepid spirit, I learned to embrace unwanted experiences, make them meaningful and apply them to life.
The mission of the Centre for Human Flourishing LLC is to empower others to embrace so as to learn from emotionally painful or traumatic — unwanted —experiences, and then to apply those experiences, integrated with knowledge, to life— for the purpose of living . . . fully, with peace, serenity, love, hope, joy and gratitude.
Simultaneously, with this achievement of internal liberty and freedom, we become agents for the relief from human suffering —forces for the Good, and for the betterment of humankind.