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

A luminous being appeared to me, telepathically explained they were the spirit of chuchuwasi, then became so bright and powerful that I woke up with a gasp. This was my first encounter with a plant spirit. It came to me in a dream during my second week in isolation in the Amazon jungle. Chuchuwasi is a giant jungle tree, whose name roughly translates to “house of the heart.” I remembered only a moment from the dream, yet it was powerful enough to make me feel beyond any shado

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 dependent on destructive behaviors, while others do not. I love when conversations go in a ch