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Commitment in Relationships
Commitment is often heralded as the cornerstone of meaningful relationships, symbolizing dedication, loyalty, and an unwavering resolve...
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Jul 9, 20244 min read


Today
The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness, meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest. The shakiness and uncertainty in the belly....
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Jun 24, 20242 min read


Owning Your Goodness
Some are put in the position of emotionally caring for an adult early in their lives at a time they themselves need more than anything to...
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Jun 20, 20242 min read


Light in Darkness
Periods of liminality and transition can contain a hidden opportunity for reunion with long lost or denied parts of our psyche, soma,...
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Jun 16, 20242 min read


There is Only Love
Performed by Michael Gott https://open.spotify.com/track/4EOXCSKQXNz5aYXHV7lSGo?si=89b7e27725a048fb https://youtu.be/WXGm17ZRIHo?si=I8Z49...
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Jun 12, 20241 min read


If You Knew
By Ellen Bass What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them,...
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Jun 8, 20241 min read


Weaving
Even if our primary interest is in spiritual transformation, we cannot separate out our unresolved relational trauma, attachment...
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Jun 4, 20242 min read


Both
Often, the path of transformation and healing can be dominated by solar metaphors and images - those of growth, moving upward, rising...
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May 30, 20241 min read


Home, Safe
In moments of unbearable experience - when we’re unable to access the internal resources or relational support to process what is...
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May 26, 20243 min read


Tending to Trauma
Trauma occurs when our capacity to process emotional and somatic experience is overwhelmed. One of the things we know about trauma is...
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May 13, 20243 min read


Breath, You Invisible Poem!
BREATH by Rainer Maria Rilke Breath, you invisible poem! Pure, continuous exchange with all that is, flow and counter flow where...
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May 8, 20241 min read


Breathe and Be Here
Breathe Sierra Marin https://open.spotify.com/track/1Ycmq6IcydGeRy8x67d5Eh?si=UMphMaf1R7aV5wBEMijDzA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5VllXqahcf...
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May 4, 20241 min read


Breathe and Listen
The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness, meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest. The shakiness and uncertainty in the belly....
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Apr 30, 20242 min read


Breathe
The next time you notice you’ve turned against yourself, tangled in a looping storyline about how you’ve failed, how you’re not enough,...
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Apr 26, 20243 min read


Rewiring with Breath
Early relational experiences are encoded in our neural circuitry in the first 18 - 24 months of life. Stored as implicit memory, these...
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Apr 22, 20242 min read
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