The 5 ‘Rs’ of Relationships – Moving from ‘Rupture’ to ‘Resilience’
The Five R’s are: Rupture, Resentment, Responsibility, Repair, and Resilience. Let’s take a journey through these five steps, and see how things look on the other side.
How to remain emotionally mature in a crisis
Emotional maturity isn’t just something we can achieve in the good times. It’s a quality that can accompany us through the deepest crises. A key idea to keep in mind ...
Somatics: How to be conscious in your body
Somatic work is a way of connecting on a deep internal level to understand and know ourselves from a sensing place. In the last two newsletters we explored the proprioceptive ...
Craniosacral Therapy: Where science and energy meet
Recently a client wrote asking me “Whether craniosacral is considered energy work, or is there more of a science-oriented theory to it? . . . some effects of acupuncture can ...
Learn to practice joy
I was catching up on my CBC Tapestry listening the other day and was struck by this one 7 minute segment on Joy. In this portion of the podcast Chade-Meng ...
A breathing practice to get in touch with yourself
As a holistic practitioner, I understand that all is interconnected in some way. The environment in which I grow is a macrocosm of the microcosm of a single cell within ...
Cultivating presence
Moments of meeting and acknowledging, of listening and offering
More movement for Anxiety Relief
“…as our attunement with others increases – we become viscerally aware of how our resonance circuits draw us deep within each other – we may become open to a felt ...
How movement can help manage your anxiety
In my last post I talked about how our whole brain pays attention. Our whole brain is responsible for language, logic, creativity and relationships. Each hemisphere pays attention differently, the ...
Be in your body, be in your brain
We are hardwired for safety and survival and that involves communication both emotionally and rationally. As social beings we are designed to connect. We have our social engagement network at ...