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The Child within Remembers: An Inner Child Healing Poem
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


Changing the Inner Channel (Meditation for Self-Awareness)
Do you want to go deeper into your internal landscape? In this meditation, we explore five ways of understanding your experience, based on the Somatic Experiencing tool SIBAM: sensation, image, behavior, affect, and meaning. It will get you out of your head, closer to yourself, and allow new insights to arise. How was this practice for you? Let me know! Inner Channel Transcript Hi. This is Emma Sartwell with Somatic Spiritual Counseling, and this is going to be a SIBAM medit


Implicit Shame in Spiritual Communities
Anyone ever tell you to stop worrying about your problems because "we're all one" or "time doesn't really exist"?


Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Working with 4 Phases of the Nervous System
In this video, you will learn the four phases of the nervous system response under stress and in safety, and a brief practice for each.


What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?
We've all heard of post-traumatic stress. But what about post-traumatic growth? Have you ever gone through something incredibly...


Anxiety + Attachment Styles
Curious about attachment styles? In this brief article, I summarize the four types (ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized, and secure).


Towards Healing Racialized Trauma #blacklivesmatter
Hello, friends. Well, this is a time of transition! We are all asking what we can do to support the shift that wants to happen away from...


The 35-Second Reset — one question to switch gears
Many of us are feeling tossed about by external circumstances, finding it hard to come back to center. In this chaotic moment, I want to off
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