Nervous System Regulation – Opening To Receptivity
We are living in a fast-paced, competitive environment that preferences speed, efficiency and profit. How do we take time to give ourselves what we need? In understanding our nervous system, as well as the effect of past trauma on our nervous systems, we...
Emerging
We all have expectations for ourselves. We also have expectations for others. Sometimes this line is difficult to distinguish. When others’ early, and perhaps unconscious expectations for us become our own expectations for ourselves, it can be difficult to climb out...
Enough’ness
It is often believed that we are not enough until we…(insert the thing)…yet, what is more true is that we are already enough, even before this consideration. We were enough before we were anything, because we can’t be nor become "not enough," as it is a construct of...
Developing Intuition Through The Earth
When was the last time you really took in a flower? Did you notice its delicate petals, how the colors faded from pink to white? Did you feel the ground under your foot where this flower emerges from? Were you able to feel the weight of your body and how the surface...
How Do We Get To “We”
It is a radical act of grace to withhold judging ourselves. To truthfully and honestly not berate ourselves, for anything, and be willing to bring generosity and grace, is a hall pass for all the negligent, egregious, or even sabotaging acts we commit to ourselves....
Technological Detox
I would like to contribute to a society where the subtle turning away from media platforms becomes revelatory and feeds the deepest source of each person’s life force.
Silence. Slowing. Noticing.
Resting in nature can help to bring us out of listening to the ongoing conversation in our minds by expanding us out to include the sounds and rhythms that we are embedded within. Our earth body becomes naturally curious about the leaves rustling and the swooshing...
Gentleness
It use to be regarded as effective to berate ourselves in order to do better, by telling ourselves to try harder, or accomplish more, or provide the necessary justifications for why we were not good enough, yet. However, our internal critic can become so powerful...
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,...
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...
Misunderstood Fear
What is often misunderstood about the role of fear, is that it has to step up in a way that exceeds its normal role when it has to account for the absence of anger.
Where Do We Go To Transform?
Our North American culture emphasizes expediency, growth, productivity and getting ahead! Yet, where… is this place we are trying to get out in front of?
What If I Don’t Know How To Meditate?
To meditate is simply to sit, and stay. Doesn’t the act of meditation sound so complicated? We are told we need to "do something specific with the breath, sit in this way, but not that way; focus here, no, focus there." It is ripe territory for the mind to...
The Value of Discernment
As we confront fears and anxiety around the Covid pandemic, we are reminded to focus on what is nourishing, safe and reliable. Granted we all live with an existential uncertainly at the very core of who we are, however, there also exists the ability to connect to our...
Notice The Good
How often do we tell ourselves how well things are going? How often do we notice the good and relish in feeling well and connected? By far the greatest and most useful way to live a happier life is to appreciate yourself more. Unconditional love and compassion...
JESSICA BAKER
TENDING THE GROUND, LLC