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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Intimate Relating
In any close relationship (where we take the risk of allowing another to matter) we open ourselves to the two primordial energies of...
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Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Rebirth
By Alex Elle There will be moments when you will bloom fully and then wilt, only to bloom again. If we can learn anything from flowers,...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Waiting to Be Free
BLACKBIRD By the Beatles Interpreted by Evan Rachel Wood https://open.spotify.com/track/2gQhXam6W18YxCNoHQQ24s?si=rV0MHGMOSj-...
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Apr 10, 20241 min read
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Fierce Grace
For many of us, initiation into soul awareness . . . Awakening . . . occurs by way of transition, shattering, loss, and reorganization,...
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Apr 6, 20242 min read
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The Wound and the Healer
Many who are interested in spirituality and healing have been wounded – physically, emotionally, or at a soul level. Sometimes this...
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Apr 2, 20242 min read
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