Union

Union

Grief is rarely talked about or admired as a useful emotion to get to know what we deeply care about. We are encouraged to pretend we simply don’t experience grief. It is bred out of us, generation after generation. When we are faced with disappointment in our lives,...
Transitions…

Transitions…

We are a series of beginnings and endings, openings and closures; an unfolding collaborative of shrinking and expanding. Much like the two wings of a bird operate through flapping, by contracting and expanding, we are also propelled along through these cycles....
Having What You Want

Having What You Want

Feeling permission is one of the main ingredients in the realization of our desires. Often we are fooled into believing that what we want is out there – an achievement, an event, a quality, a relationship or whatever it is we want.  It may feel out of reach to us,...
Transforming Shame

Transforming Shame

When we perceive we have done something wrong we often don’t simply feel guilt that we did something wrong, but that something inherent to us IS wrong, or that we are irrevocably bad. As Francis Weller tells his readers, this is the insidious quality to shame:...
What Is EMDR? How Can It Help Me?

What Is EMDR? How Can It Help Me?

Have you ever found yourself acting in a way that sincerely surprised you? Have you felt unaware of why an experience bothered you so much? It could be baffling to try to understand it and so we quite naturally discard it or explain it away as being about the other...