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Breathing, and more . . .
Use your breath to direct attention into the center of whatever feeling is arising. Send awareness inside your emotions and saturate them...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 20, 20232 min read


Paradox and Contradiction
While there is a part of us that very genuinely wishes to heal, awaken, and transform conditioned ways of seeing, there is often a lesser...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 16, 20232 min read


Listening
I am learning deeply to understand that I don't have to fix anyone's problems. I don’t have to save my clients or friends or lovers, I...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 12, 20232 min read


Dawn
WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING By David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 8, 20231 min read


Let Go
Let Go of the Shore By Karen Drucker On the zigzag path that has been my life, I have been faced many times with the dilemma of having to...

Annelisa MacBean
Oct 4, 20231 min read


The Vast Relational Field
When we experience heartbreak, tragedy, uncertainty, and grief, we are touched not only by our own personal, biographical layer of...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 30, 20232 min read


Becoming Human
Hafiz is one of my favorite poets. In a poem called “Becoming Human” Hafiz recounts that a man who was having what he thought were...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 26, 20232 min read


Attend, Align and Rest
Trauma occurs when our capacity to process emotional, psychic, and somatic experience is compromised or overwhelmed. The fragmentation of...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 22, 20233 min read


Grace
There are times in our lives, sometimes observable cycles, when our most precious beliefs, insights, awarenesses and realizations fall...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 18, 20232 min read


Ripples
So often we can believe that shame related to trauma, wounding, and other sensitivities, is evidence that something’s wrong with us, and...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 14, 20232 min read


Falling Down / Getting Up
We Fall Down By Amy Wadge https://youtu.be/Tw05g2rqQKY?si=pcDf18UXvb9aYQx1 https://open.spotify.com/track/62g7qQkjcCXOQCKeF8M9BJ?si=ec283...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 10, 20231 min read


Always Alive
There was once an old, collective dream that opening our hearts was going to feel safe, that somehow love, and loving relationships...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 6, 20232 min read


Full-Spectrum Living
Healing and spiritual transformation is quite a focus of psychological methods and practices these days. Deep joy, clarity, and peace are...

Annelisa MacBean
Sep 2, 20232 min read


In Between
Deepening The Wonder by Hafiz Death is a favour to us, But our scales have lost their balance. The impermanence of the body Should give...

Annelisa MacBean
Aug 28, 20231 min read


The Call
A Calling Home By Ann McDonald https://youtu.be/cpK52AEdbtk https://open.spotify.com/track/1Oaji2iM9idHFW9M0ZM4RN?si=0e0a7a74427c4d34

Annelisa MacBean
Aug 24, 20231 min read
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