It’s quite common for people to experience the same types of reactions and pain again and again. The question I would pose to you is what type of circling back are you doing?

Have you dismissed going for more therapy because you believe it is too taxing?

Does the prospect of dealing with your emotional mess feel like more work than reward?

Before I launch into the merits of body-based emotional therapy, I want to give credit to traditional psychotherapy for all the benefits it provides.

The books, videos and posts that I value most, mirror something that part of me already knows.

When we’re on a long healing journey, it’s easy to focus on how far we have to go rather than how far we have come.

Comparing yourself to your perception of how another person is doing is unhealthy in all aspects of life but it’s particularly destructive in healing.

Have you ever felt it’s unfair when you regress in your healing?

We were working on an economics dilemma and everyone on the team was contributing his/her point of view.

Our minds tell us so many things that aren’t true. In the process, we react emotionally, which affects our relationships.

All week I’ve been writing about giving and encouraging you to be realistic about your own capacity.

We all have our dark corners, our shadow side that can be hard to face and meet with full presence.

Do you agree that to be healthy we need to deal with our emotions? We need to process our emotions so we don’t end up repressing what’s not dealt with.

The idea of unearthing suppressed emotional material is controversial. On the one hand, if that repressed material is creating blocks to living your life and accessing healing, then we want to know what’s really going on.

I believe in the benefits of talk-based therapy and am so grateful for all the ways it helped me understand myself and become more conscious.

This is a photo of the black raspberries that grow near my house every year in late June. I love these berries more than any other fruit.

The foods you choose have a huge impact on your vitality. If you eat food that is processed, package or industrial, there isn’t much life/chi/prana in it.

If you child has a learning challenge, take some time to explore why. Look at the whole child. Learn at what’s happening in the household.

When the stress load is too high, children can be in a chronic state of tension, which may not be apparent on the surface.

Pain isolates is. It can make us believe we can’t be with others. It tends to invite cocooning which can be nourishing at times but it can prevent us from meeting others as we are.

What if we looked at children with learning challenges through a holistic lens? Let’s broaden the focus from how the child processes information to how the child is doing in his/her life.