Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling since 1987
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Learn how to harness the therapeutic power of your 'self-narrative' at Gilda's Club on March 21st I am excited to announce my upcoming presentation at this year's Integrative Health and Wellness Series at Gilda's Club. Here's the registration info and description of the event: Strengthening Healing Through Transforming Your Story Native Americans say “change your …
Through a full, multidimensionally integrative meditative and expressive practice which can be greatly enhanced through accompanying journaling we go higher, become greater, and experience corresponding ease and the desired release of trauma. We confront trauma at its emotional source and create ease from dis-ease.
We are witnessing the opening of our basest, undeveloped, freaked out, regressed, dysfunctional selves in our country – and there’s hell to pay for us all. “Bad karma” would be the phrase for this, with suffering, expanding conflict, racism, expanding greed and economic disparity . . . can we allow ourselves to go backwards in a world that is primed to go forward and take us, whether we like it or not, along with it?
The core operative here on the earth plane is growth towards the expanding greater good – and there are no exceptions. Therefore, there are no “Others” that can’t or shouldn’t benefit from this in an endlessly, creatively unfolding present – we truly are All For One and One For All.
We are endlessly flowing, paradoxically intact patterns of energy. We have the power to shift our the pattern of our energetic field and thereby “raise ourselves up” to a higher frequency level, which changes not only how we respond to our experience but our experience itself.
We truly earn our wisdom through being wholly responsible for our lives; and daring to choose what we come to know in our heart of hearts is right and supports our authentic selves is a sacred act of separating out and choosing with higher clarity and awareness. These choices, in turn, always support the greater good.
Personal retreats clear, relax, inspire, transform, uplift, energize and empower. A classic example of a year long personal retreat is Thoreau’s autobiographical On Walden Pond.
I think of my personal retreats as an “unfolding” as well, as if I had secret wings that here can open up, spread, and take me far away to a special, secret, transcendent place of healing, higher power and new creation. It is your unique “breakaway” from which you will return changed – for the better.
How to radically heal from emotional trauma All healing from disease involves radical responses. How can we best involve ourselves as initiator and best assessor of what constitutes radical healing? First we need to know the core elements that initiate and produce a particular state of dis-ease. When we can access our freed inner observer and …
Do You Know the Real Benefit of Experience? As our lives go on and on, so do our experiences . . . and so do our interpretation of our experiences, including related judgments/belief systems…that always become significant burdens that can interfere with moving forward. Ask yourself what the real purpose of experience is – what …
The Way to Resolve Challenges is NOT to Begin by "Analyzing" Over and over again clients, in sharing their heartfelt concerns and key challenges, sincerely attempt to, as they typically say, "analyze" them as how to find right solutions. What pretty much quickly reveals itself, though, is what I call "the real agenda", otherwise known …
The idea for this post was motivated in part by Heather Plett's "What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone"– after reading it, ask yourself how the concept of holding space might apply to yourself? And be sure to read the article on UpliftConnect.com Conflicts of Caring Interfere with Creating and Developing I …