Tenderness is for the Heart

Presence

When our hearts are burdened we want to be sure that we approach our inner world with patience, sincerity and slowness. We can get very complex in our practices and in our minds by analyzing everything that is happening but even if our analysis is right it won’t...

Simple Aware Being

Presence, Spiritual Awakening

Do you ever wonder who you really are?  The answer is quite simple.  You are that which is reading these words right now.  Simple aware being – looking.  You are that which is hearing the sounds around you.  The same simple aware being – listening.  This...

Living with Individual and Collective Trauma

Trauma

We are all living with the impact of individual and collective trauma. Just as it leaves an imprint on our own physiology it leaves an imprint on our relationships with each other and our relationship with the world. In our attempts to soothe and settle our agitated...

Chronic Pain and Anxiety

Self Care Practices

Chronic pain and anxiety are often coupled in the physiology. Chronic pain may not be something that we can easily shift but we can support the nervous system to relax out of anxiety and fear based thinking.  Once the nervous system settles all that vital energy can...

Curiosity and Chronic Illness

Self Care Practices

When I’m working with clients who are experiencing a lot of anxiety from the impact of trauma, chronic illness or PTSD I like to slowly awaken the quality of curiosity. When we have a lot of fear and activation in our physiology curiosity may seem to be...