Guided Meditation Journey What would it be like to have an inner friend who you could summon whenever need be? Someone who brought an embodied sense of protection, strength, balance, and support into your life? Establishing a connection with a plant ally is a powerful way to begin building a relationship with the world of spirits. Plants are beautiful and benevolent beings who want to help us grow into our full potential. They have so much wisdom to offer. This 25-minute audi

After a recent session focusing on inner child healing, a client of mine wrote this beautiful poem. I received permission from her to share it, because I think it so powerfully captures

Who does not love to be protected? Can you remember a time when someone stuck up for you in public?

Romantic relationships can be hard. Like, really f’ing hard. And it can be so nice to have help given to us in the form of a succinct list.

Psychology Responds to Physiology In my last blog post, I spoke about the way we use addiction as a means of dealing with chronic nervous system dysregulation, aka trauma. When we experience a traumatic event, and find ourselves stuck with too much or too little nervous system charge, something psychologically resourceful happens as a result, and this something deserves attention. Humans are incredibly inventive. We are creators by nature. Each word, movement, and impulse is

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How much of how we live our lives revolves around a deep feeling of not being enough? Enough, just as we are, to be worthy of money, of resp

This isn’t a cliché post about overcoming a toxic relationship and moving on.

My tween years were filled with adventures, made invaluable by my close-knit and friendly circle. I remember spending a whole summer at an o

You’re a woman in her early thirties, dressed nicely, and on the bus coming home from work. It’s about 7pm, and dusk is arriving. You take y

When I was born, I was given up for adoption. It would take me nearly thirty years to understand how much this has affected me. Speaking as a fellow sufferer and an enthusiastic researcher, I know that developmental trauma comes with challenges not necessarily faced by those enduring adulthood shock trauma. It has taken me nearly five years of working with Somatic Experiencing (SE) to become regulated enough to write such a blog post. In SE and several other forms of somatic

In a recent conversation, my mom asked me why some people become addicted to drugs while others do not. I love when conversations go in a ch