Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
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.
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.
Remember – life goes on . . . stress kills – and we’re all meant to meet life’s and the universe’s challenges to truly and freely choose life .. . and fully honor our passage in it! Let me know your results, please, by sharing your comments at the end of this article to support and inspire others; and further acknowledge your own self-caring and power . . .
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. …
As we center, let go and trust we increase awareness, understand what’s real, and empower ourselves . . . so do we relax, release and recharge ourselves and our life. Then we are free to choose and create – endlessly.
Meditation continues to be cited in mind-body research as a great way to improve wellness, ease stress, and enhance empowerment and insight. This dynamic workshop will focus on the three key steps I’ve had ongoing and extended success with in my Centering Tools practice, for you to be able to fully meditate in ten minutes.
Right now I have a lot going on in my life – a lot that is exciting, challenging, and intense – so not surprisingly, I “surge” with multidimensional, full-ranging emotions. This is of course a lot of what I support and help clients “track” and fully resolve with greater understanding, healing and personal growth in my work.
Here are the guidelines that work best for me, and that clients consistently tell me help them significantly and successfully work through emotional upset:
Always, the Real Challenge to Trust – I ask you to trust yourself and your own innate capacity to create newly and expansively, to be better able to support and sustain yourself and those you love as we move into this pivotal fall season. Know that all you so lovingly offer and honestly experience yourself is all you can really offer in the world – and what the world most greatly needs now.