Is it possible to be confident in following your feelings? Who criticizes your emotions more…others or yourself? When did it become taboo to feel your emotions?

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As a predominantly introverted person, I adore solitude. I love being alone and allowing my day to unfold or fully engaging in what I intend to do. I don’t have a fear of missing out on activities. I am completely content filling my day with whatever inspires me or tugs at my heart strings. I experience joy in a broad range of activities, too; anything from singing and dancing around my house to journaling to spending time in nature.

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Although vulnerability encompasses openness and innocence to trust, it seems as though the willingness to get hurt is the more challenging aspect…at least it is for me. I crave the openness and the innocence but definitely do NOT long for getting hurt.

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The biggest area in my life I try to control—or blame someone else—is around emotions. I can dance around really feeling my emotions better than Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on the silver screen.

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This is the gift of doing your “work”.   This is the gift of conscious awareness around your beliefs, words and actions.   This is what is meant by feeling is healing.   This embraces the power of energy work combined with transpersonal development.   This is what I hold to be true in my…

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What is your response to feeling scared?   I tend to feel constriction in my body and notice my guard going up, bringing on a defensive response to others. It took me quite a while to be able to name the defensive snark that comes along with feeling scared.   I will even dare to…

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How many times have you dismissed how you’re feeling, hoping it will just go away on its own if you ignore it?   Has it ever been helpful?   Has it ever created a stronger, bigger reaction in a following situation because it was simmering under the surface, waiting for the next opportunity to arise?…

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  We all have a story.   Sometimes the story is embraced and sometimes it is rejected.   Sometimes we integrate our story and sometimes we want to tuck it away to never have to look at it again.   The important thing to understand is that our story helps inform who we are in…

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What do you suppose happens when someone rejects their brokenness? Let me clarify my perspective on brokenness. I don’t believe that we are broken or need “fixing”. I do believe there are pieces of our lives or experiences that we attempt to keep separate from the parts or experiences we accept, thus creating “brokenness”. The…

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