Bending Time: Transformative Healing Through Memory Reconsolidation
An exploration of memory reconsolidation—the brain’s natural process for transforming emotional pain at its roots. This piece traces how, through safety and emotional truth, we can return to old wounds and update them, gently bending the timeline of who we are so the future no longer echoes the past.
Tapping into the Unconscious: Using Tarot as a Tool for Self-Exploration and Growth
Over the last century, psychological thought, particularly within the Jungian framework, has paved a path toward understanding that human beings are guided by deep internal narratives, archetypes, and symbols. Tarot, in this light, can serve as a map of the psyche, offering a means to navigate inner landscapes that are often hidden from conscious view. For those drawn to symbolic tools, tarot can provide a structured way to explore personal themes and introspection.
Finding the Way Through: How AEDP Helps You Transform Emotional Pain into Growth
Emotional pain and overwhelming stress often weigh people down. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) harnesses safe connection and real-time emotional processing to break old patterns, support deep healing, and foster genuine growth. This approach offers a guided, empathetic path toward inner transformation and lasting change.
The Gentle Path of Letting Be: Finding Freedom in Allowing What Is
In a world that prizes control and productivity, learning to simply let be can feel radical. Rather than fighting against sadness, fear, or uncertainty, we can meet life’s challenges with openness, curiosity, and compassion. This gentle path of allowing and accepting our experiences—no matter how uncomfortable—fosters true emotional freedom and resilience.
Embracing the Threshold: Finding Meaning and Possibility Within Our Wounds
In a world that pushes us to “get over” pain, it’s easy to view trauma as an inconvenient glitch. However, true transformation often emerges when we enter the liminal space between who we were and who we might become. In this blog post, we explore how embracing our wounds can help us reimagine old stories, identities, and definitions of healing.
Slowing Down: Finding Stillness Through Somatic Wisdom
Learn how slowing down through somatic wisdom can help you break free from modern urgency, find inner stillness, and foster true resilience. Learn practical ways to gently engage your nervous system, embrace mindful presence, and navigate life’s currents with greater ease, compassion, and creativity.
Archetypal Astrology: A Symbolic Tool to Reframe Narrative, Meaning, and Inner Growth
Discover the transformative power of archetypal astrology—a symbolic, story-driven approach rooted in depth psychology. Far from pop culture horoscopes, this practice uses universal archetypes to reframe life’s challenges as part of a meaningful cosmic narrative, fostering personal growth and deeper self-awareness.
The Art of Flexible Boundaries: Finding the Distance to Love Yourself and Others
What does it mean to hold a boundary? When most of us think of boundaries, we picture a firm, unwavering line — a property fence, a set of rules, a series of “no”s. Boundaries, in the popular imagination, often appear inflexible. But what if boundaries are not static fences but rather dynamic points of engagement? What if we think of them not as fixed lines in the sand, but as living, breathing guides that shift with context and circumstance?
Tending to Collective Grief (& Weaving New Futures)
As we face numerous crises on a global level, we must consider grief not as a problem to be solved but as an invitation to transformation. This perspective requires us to rethink our engagement with loss, seeing it not as an endpoint but as a pivotal moment for political and creative expression.
Parts Work: A Journey Towards Integration
Parts Work offers a profound method for understanding and healing the various facets of our personalities. Parts Work therapy seeks to address these parts intuitively and compassionately by understanding their origins and ultimately guiding them toward more harmonious roles within the broader system of the self.
On Glimmers: Cues of Safety, Connection, Joy, and Peace
Explore how noticing small moments of joy, called "glimmers," can help reshape your nervous system from stress and dysregulation to safety and calm. Learn how to identify and increase glimmers for greater peace and well-being.
Working with the Felt Sense: The Power of Somatic Therapy
The body acts as a sensory sponge, constantly picking up cues from our environment to determine whether we are safe to relax and connect, or if we are in danger and need to act. Learning the language of the body and how to communicate with it can disrupt unhelpful patterns, move out stuck emotions disguised as pain or tension, and create new patterns that are more flexible, spacious, and healthy.
On Perfectionism
Perfectionism can be defined broadly as a personality style, relational style, or a way of making sense of the world, depending on the person. Despite the difficulties associated with perfectionistic tendencies, research shows that it has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years. So, what factors contribute to perfectionism and how can we work with it?
Remapping the Grieving Brain
It felt like a cosmic joke that I had to endure such shocking, deep grief right before stepping into a space serving others through their grief. And yet, I couldn’t help but feel his passing was a gift of mourning and learning for me, one I needed to walk through and share with others as I connected neurological findings I had recently learned to my personal practice of grieving.