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Post-Traumatic Growth and a thriving body+mind+soul with some thoughts, tips & advice.
Grounding: Has It Become A Misunderstood Ritual? An Offering of 7 Reimagined Grounding Practices
Grounding has become a buzzword in wellness spaces, but is it just a temporary fix when we feel ungrounded most of the time? This blog explores how we can rediscover a reimagined ground of our being so we don’t need this constant reminder to “get grounded.” Plus, seven actionable ways to embody this deeper ground.
Read more to step off the see-saw of “grounded” versus “ungrounded” and into the stability that’s already yours.
Embodied Speech: Rediscovering the Sense We Never Knew We Had
What if speech wasn’t just words but a felt experience, a sense, like touch or taste? Inspired by Philip Shepherd’s Radical Wholeness and the Anlo-Ewe culture, this post explores how embodied speech can deepen connection in a disconnected world.
Genograms, Gurus, and Grateful Dead: My Quest for a Teacher Who Didn’t Demand My Soul
A genogram, Lenny Kravitz, a backpack, the Grateful Dead, and a spiritual path I never saw coming. Where did it lead? Let’s just say, not where I expected…
The Importance of Embodiment and Holding on to Self: A Recipe for Differentiation
A new blog post promoting differentiation from enmeshed family systems. Embodiment can be an essential ingredient in the differentiation recipe.
Throwing Resilience Out With the Bathwater
Throwing Resilience Out With the Bathwater: A Closer Look at at Naive Intervention
We Can Stop Sugar Coating It
We Can Stop Sugar Coating It
Looking at our life from the inside, abandoning our current coping strategies, and calling bologna on our culture’s fragility.
Why I Chose To Tell My Clients I Have Breast Cancer
Age old ethics guidelines tell us that self-disclosure from therapists is not recommended and it will distract clients from their work. Is it time for a change? After my cancer diagnosis my ethics aligned with something else. Something bigger and more human. Our common humanity is our suffering. And we heal by sharing it.