A light found only there…
There’s something about periods of liminality and transition which contain a hidden doorway into reunion with what I sometimes refer to as “the lost orphans of psyche and soma,” a group of internal friends and …
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The Resting Your Nervous System self-guided home study course
My online course – Resting Your Nervous System: Embodying a Trauma-Sensitive Spirituality and Discovering a Felt Sense of Safety – is available in a self-guided home study format. Around 18 hours in length, it weaves …
Real magic
Many are familiar with the term “holding environment” as elucidated by Winnicott, a warm and poetic description of a relational configuration rooted in empathic attunement and right-brain to right-brain resonance.As the matrix of secure attachment, …
Turning toward the broken and the shattered
Sometimes I wonder if all therapy isn’t grief therapy when all is said and done. The original Greek therapeia referred to attending, caring for, sending breath into. Not “curing,” “fixing” or even “healing,” not these heavy clinical …
Caring for yourself in a new way
The next time you notice that you’re attacking yourself, caught in a looping storyline about how you’ve failed, how you’ll never get it right, how there is something just fundamentally wrong with you …When you’ve …
The felt experience of joy
Usually when we speak about the shadow, we’re referring to less desirable experience such as unmet jealousy, rage, selfishness, and shame. Usually, the shadowy underworld is seen as the dark repository for “negative” aspects of …
Free video – An Invitation to Rest Your Nervous System
I want to share with you a free video (and accompany .pdf article) entitled, An Invitation to Rest Your Nervous System. >>Access the free webinar here During the webinar, I speak about slowing down and attuning …
The energetic imprints of the wounded healer
The wounded healer isn’t only a myth to learn about, but a living reality inside you, with its own images, feelings, fragrance, and modes of vision. It is more like a mandala or inner atmosphere …
Relationship as path
In close personal relationships, it is essential to emphasize our connectedness and the preciousness of secure attachment, leading with our vulnerability, receptivity, and sensitivities. In this, we prioritize the relationship and its value in our …
Free Video: Trauma and the Wounded Healer
In this short webinar, I explore an embodied, contemporary, trauma-sensitive path of spirituality and healing through the archetype of the wounded healer.Photo by IdaT