There is only one way to experience life— through this one precious body. My therapeutic work with clients includes somatic work, as well as mind-body connection.
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In what ways do we take esteem-able action?
Often when we are experiencing struggle or strife in life we have lost a sense of our self. One way to build our sense of self is to act in esteem-able ways. Behaviors that make us feel “good” about ourselves, provide us a sense of purpose, and remind us of who we are.
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Attachment style, family systems, and mindfulness are cornerstones of how I work with clients.
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With a mindfulness practice we learn how to reconnect with our bodies so we can regulate our emotional states and respond to the world around us in ways that better serve us.
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Look Up.
Self-care does not need to be something that takes too much of our time or money. Sometimes it can be a simple shift in our attention that allows us to care for ourselves in whatever present moment we are in.
It is scary to speak up about feelings or experiences that we have learned to feel some sort of shame about. It’s scarier when we don’t know how our speaking up will be received.
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One way I practice mindfulness is meditation. A lot of people avoid meditation because they think they can’t do it. But what they think they can’t do is not what meditation is.
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How do you take care of you? We have a lot of excuses for not. “Too busy.” “No money.” “Others need me.” “That’s selfish.”
Where do we learn these ways to sabotage our own self?
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Who Am I? Who Do I Want To Be? When we ask ourselves these two questions we can short circuit old patterns that no longer serve us.
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If you're even a little bit like me, you easily grow weary of situations where people are seemingly hell-bent on thriving in the creation of chaos and conflict. I find comfort in choosing peace
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Let your fire within burn hot + bright
All too often we allow ourselves to be pulled away to tend the external fires of others. Their dramas, their conflicts, their misunderstandings, their pains, their chaos.
For the entire drive from Los Angeles to Mammoth I had a feeling of dread. A little knot of fear in my stomach. "Are you excited?" my friend, my companion on this road trip, asked me as we made the almost-5-hour drive.
"No. I don't even want to snowboard. But I'm making myself do it."
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Or are you the first to drop your sword?
Our primitive brains are wired for war. For conflict. It's how we survived past our reproductive age and kept the human specifies going.
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Feeling anxious or low energy? Try this practice.
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This may seem counter-intuitive, and to the small, human, ego mind, it is.
"We have to let it fall apart," my dad clearly stated through the phone.
"Who am I in this moment?" "How am I being in this moment?"
"Do I like who I am in this moment?"
When someone we know or love leaves their body it's often a time to reflect, to create meaning, and to be reminded of how precious our breath really is.
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When you travel, do you gripe at the TSA agent, roll your eyes at the slow movers down the airplane aisle, cringe at the crying toddler?
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