Tag: trauma
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Discerning our inner voice
Alongside the thrill of learning how to tap into a flow of images, sounds, sensations, and loving support, a gnawing question loomed at the edges. “How do I know I’m not just making this up?” The thought emerged again, and again, as I began listening to my inner voice. It’s probably one of the most…
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Those whose healing is bound with ours
Moving into October, I can’t help but feel the pull towards connection with ancestors and others across the veil. It does seem that this year that quality of proximity began a bit earlier than usual. Maybe that’s because I’ve been writing more about mediumship and ancestry. I’ve been drawn to therapeutic work around death…
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Preparation | Catharsis | Integration
I had the sense going into 2024 that I would be need to be patient and stay focused. I had experienced a strong enough taste of Yoga Nidra from the previous months of practice that began last Fall, to know that continuing a daily practice was going to change things. I knew that the friction…
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Field Notes from a 90 Day Sadhana (Part 2: After the 90 days)
Have you ever considered creating a container of dedicated meditation or spiritual practice? If you’re like me and benefit from some structure, it can be a wonderful way to deepen your practice and engage the learning that is possible from repetition. I’ll be slowly unpacking that learning with you over the upcoming months, but if…
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Field Notes from a 90 Day Sadhana (Part 1: day 45)
My arrival at a Yoga Nidra practice happened slowly at first. Tracee Stanley was the teacher whose introduction welcomed me, she was a guest I encountered in another online network. I bought some of her meditations (although many are free, if you want to browse around) and listened— I enjoyed them, but didn’t dive in…
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Energy Movement through Time: Part 1
A well-known therapist turned healer, Daniel Foor, speaks extensively about honoring our ancestors and speaking with them. In a recent lecture last year he said that we can’t reduce them to “merely an energy” and emphasized the need to acknowledge the otherworld as an actual place. I agree with this statement in spirit, but I…
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Is healing possible?
Healing can be a loaded word, and lately it seems trauma has become one too— the subject of numerous think pieces about whether the wider understanding of what constitutes trauma has gone too far. As a person who has experienced both “big T” and “little T” trauma, I feel it’s a great disservice to compare…
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A Constellation of Selves
Developing a “cohesive sense of self” is a goal in many perspectives of therapy and personal development. In this view, the self that is not cohesive is in conflict, opposing parts fighting for primacy in the personality and in relationships. We could refer back to concepts illuminated in the Adult Attachment Interview, that this lack of cohesion…
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Heart Opening and Boundaries
Any time energy centers develop blocks, it’s always for a good reason. The arrangement and flow of the energy body is ideally suited to meet one’s environmental conditions and is adaptive in nature, but sometimes we retain certain patterns of movement even as our conditions change. The energetic blueprint of the body works just like…
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Intuition and Awareness
Intuition is a concept increasingly present in the conversation about mental health and wellness. In the most concrete sense, it can be described as listening to your gut, which is especially important for people whose identities have been oppressed and impinged upon and those who have experienced trauma. Maybe you could say that intuition is an…
Inward Vision 