Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
Unexpressed emotional childhood turmoil can make us chase the safety we should have felt as children. What is the best way to truly solve problems and overcome challenges, especially longstanding conflicts? Read my tactics for dealing with conflicts and traumas.
You Can Change Your Story After You Discover It How many stories have you lived in your life? I do so much key therapeutic work in my practice focusing on establishing with clients what presents as the real meaning to uncovering identity, history, and real choice as the elements to self-healing and development around telling …
Who Doesn’t Suffer in Some Way These Days? These are epidemic in the world. Most of the people who seek my services come looking for how they can “feel calmer, better, less stressed, more hopeful”. Depression and anxiety are key words that describe both psychiatric diagnoses and related symptoms. They are also a core part …
I see the story as a key “handle” to self-healing, recovery, empowerment, and transformation. It is a simple metaphor that offers centering inner “links” to children and adults who feel they have lost their sense of self to be able to develop truly greater selves, and the wherewithal to successfully meet and transcend life’s challenges.
Bullying has finally become a key topic and recovery focus for our times. Merinda is fundamentally a story about understanding that bullying only continues to occur when we believe ourselves to be victims, which directly creates an inner “giveaway” of ourselves along with a covered-up “inner bully.” Like Merinda, we “please to survive.” Dysfunction creates and perpetuates unending power struggles in relationships endlessly ricocheting between dominance and submission. I am excited to tell Merinda’s story in all settings that commit to teambuilding, interdependence, new leadership skills, and healing partnerships.
Do You Know What You Believe? As we know and accept ourselves, so do we believe in ourselves. As we believe in ourselves, so do we trust ourselves. As we trust ourselves, so do we freely choose to act and respond in empowered ways from a place of higher awareness and authentic inspiration and caring. …
What are the Keys to Right Relations? Do you experience right relations in your life … romantically, within your family, your work, your community? Relationships change, sometimes in a moment, sometimes through an entire lifetime. Are there simple, key tips for you to have right relations – and know when they’re not? Here are five …
It Connects and Aligns at Higher Levels Your Body, Mind and Spirit It effectively targets what I call the “critical mass” of dis-ease and effects shifting it into an “equal and greater” critical mass of recovery, higher stabilization, and wellness. New “critical elements” are created through this transformational shift that produce these results, involving, at …
It is so elusive – and how could it not be in our violent world – and yet it remains the great message of this holiday season – of every holiday season every December. Peace . . . peace . . . we are told to seek, in our hearts, in our world . . .The “present” of becoming more greatly present, aware, and empowered is all you can offer a world desperate to transform and transcend dysfunction.
Come join me at this free event open to cancer patients and the greater Rochester, NY community on how to utilize meditation and journaling to reduce stress and stay empowered throughout this holiday season. I’ll be speaking in the Luellen Patient Resource Room at the Wilmot Cancer Center at Strong Memorial Hospital University of Rochester Medical Center from 5:30-7:00 pm Tuesday, December 10 as part of the Integrative Oncology Lecture Series.
I have facilitated ongoing women’s self-healing and spirituality groups since I started Centering Tools in 1987… I asked the group to consider, as we move towards…the full holiday season, this deeper meaning of gratitude beyond the increasingly popular practice and belief that “thanking” involves “focusing on the (judged) good”, but to instead meditate on how to thank everything without denying all that occurred as a key aspect of completion for healing and necessary development.