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I hope the posts and videos on this blog stimulate you to think differently about your health. I'm sharing from the perspective of my training as a homeopath and my experience practicing meditation and somatic healing for over twenty years.
There are hundreds of posts, some from as far back as 2012. I invite you to search for whatever interests you and contact me if you have questions about anything I've written.
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I’m doing everything right
You can do everything right and still have flare-ups and feel terrible.
When don’t know our boundaries until we meet them
People have all kinds of ideas about what they will and won’t do but often those personal rules get broken.
Below A Certain Threshold of Health, Your Body Won’t Function Predictably
It’s challenging to heal when one day something helps and another day that same thing hurts.
Still Choosing Self-destructive Behaviours? You May Not Have Suffered Enough
It amazes me how much suffering we create by our own choices.
I might be the only person lifting 3 lbs weights that feels like a body builder.
I’ve had some hard knocks in my body and building my way back to strength has been quite challenging at time.
Hey you empaths, mind your own chakras
If you are an empath or a highly sensitive person you can likely feel a lot about everyone you encounter.
Are your circling back through the same issues again and again?
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?
Therapy isn’t something you should dread. It can be nurturing, loving and affirming not just gut wrenching
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?
Sick of talk-based therapy? You can access your emotional material through your body
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.
Rest Into What You Know
The books, videos and posts that I value most, mirror something that part of me already knows.
Are you In a Harmonious Two Way Relationship With Your Body?
If you don’t take care of your body, you’ll have nowhere to live. So what does taking care of your body mean?
Take Time To Look Back and See How Far You Have Come
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.
The Pace of Your Healing is Unique to You. Don’t Judge by Comparison.
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.
Make Peace With The Fact That Healing Isn’t Linear
Have you ever felt it’s unfair when you regress in your healing?
Have you ever talked about economics and chakras in the same sentence?
We were working on an economics dilemma and everyone on the team was contributing his/her point of view.
Question Your Mind. Use Presence to Inquire Within
Our minds tell us so many things that aren’t true. In the process, we react emotionally, which affects our relationships.
Only Give What You Have To Give
All week I’ve been writing about giving and encouraging you to be realistic about your own capacity.
The pain the feels like it will obliterate us, can free us
We all have our dark corners, our shadow side that can be hard to face and meet with full presence.
Become your own loving witness
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.
Unearth suppressed emotions from your body
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.