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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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

The return of the Friend

In moments of unbearable experience – when we’re unable to access the internal resources or relational support to process what is happening in our lives – pieces of emotion (and soul) are stored outside conscious …

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When sitting with a friend…

Dear friend, I hope you’re doing well as we move into the spring, where the darkness is starting to yield to the light. This time of the year in the mountains is always one of …

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