Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Over and over again in my work with clients, we uncover what is an overwhelmingly common core conflict. It always comes down to fundamentally not accepting yourself.
From this awareness we then link and understand that this is delusional and bullying behavior that sets the stage for further violating, blaming, victimizing, rationalizing, and addictive responses.
Can Self-Acceptance Be the Key to Becoming Whole?
Reflect on what feels like the most compassionate choice you can make to yourself – and do it.
Carry out the choice that feels like it produces, long-term, the greatest sense of freedom for you.
We always live our life in paradoxes and in multiple dimensions. Frequently when life gets us down through its tough, tragic “peaks” we lose sight, for many understandable reasons, of other, opposite dimensions that are there to sustain and support us, often in surprising ways.
Helplessness Doesn’t Care How You Feel or Think How okay is it for you to admit feeling helpless? In my practice clients seem to struggle most with that challenge, which “fits” with the epidemic dysfunction of longstanding duration in our culture that deludes us into believing we must run from any hint of experiencing that …
Ten Ways to Set Yourself Free
The focus of my work is on empowerment and all that it offers to support better coping, fundamental healing, transformation and a better life. Coaching offers key recommendations without getting in the way of each person’s capacity to experience and choose their own life journey, and has profound therapeutic value. We are not alone, and can bring a great deal of impact to each other.
We are confused in our shifting world about how healing really works. I work with clients ongoing through all the years of my Centering Tools practice on exploring, facilitating, and experiencing healing.
Times are different, systems are crumbling and/or under siege, and grassroots initiatives continue along with more and more flamboyant power initiatives through currently dominant and entrenched forces. This seems to be the most common theme presented by clients this year, through many different circumstances and individual challenges: How can I successfully navigate through these times of major transformation?
When we stop seeking permission to not only do, but at even deeper levels, be, we become more greatly caring not only to ourselves but each other. We inspire others to grow up and trust in their capacity to be truly responsible by accepting the power to choose freely with the understanding that this extends to an unconditional willingness to accept consequences.
Here are the ten paradoxical truths, each with their “pair of opposites” that I want to share with you to break the bonds of love in order to more greatly love, speaking of paradoxes! I thank countless clients for discovering and sharing these, as they’ve benefitted so greatly in their transformational journeys, through our work in the 25 years of Centering Tools, about the real nature of love: