musings

Imagine if

Imagine if, for a single entire day, every human being on this planet moved as love. If we each went about our lives giving freely,...

libbykostromin

Jan 20, 20231 min read

Doing Love's Work

Kahlil Gibran's exquisite depiction of work as "love made visible" succinctly expresses the relationship between being and doing, between...

libbykostromin

Jan 20, 20233 min read

The Sense in Absence

It is early in the new year of 2023 and I am spending three days, mid-week, at the ‘peaceful, paradise barn’ in rural Alberta. I first...

libbykostromin

Jan 20, 20233 min read

longer pieces

2022: Love beyond death: Suicide, acceptance and the awakening of the bereaved.

An autoethnographical enquiry into the profound and transformative journey of a beloved's voluntary death. (master's thesis)

2020: Psychotherapy as Love made Visible

This paper offers an in-depth exploration of the topic of work, as an expression of love, in the context of a spiritual orientation. (Approx. 5000 words)

2019: Spirituality, Psychotherapy and Transformation – A Dance Toward Wholeness

An essay about spirituality, psychotherapy and the relationship between the two, particularly with respect to the healing, growth and transformation possible within the context of a psychotherapeutic relationship. (Approx. 5000 words)