This has been a huge year for the world and for many of us personally. As life on our planet becomes increasingly complex, I’m more convinced than ever that our most important skills are self-soothing and grounding. There is a lot of distress and limited capacity to ease it. I’ve continued
Perhaps it’s the oxytocin making me gushy after so many hours Havening with clients recently, but I balled like a baby at the Wicked movie this week! Have you been? It was so lovely to see it with my daughter, we had the theatre to ourselves as we gasped and sobbed. This
We’re almost there aren’t we? That time of the year that feels ridiculous, that’s counted in days until we get to stop for a while and recover from the year that was. I’m noticing my own uptick in things to do and places to be and like Coco Chanel I’m taking off at least
SOMA means living body. Working somatically means working with our living bodies for grounding ourselves and living with greater ease. Working somatically also, importantly, allows us to lean towards goodness. And when we lean towards goodness, we have greater ability to cope when things get hard. Over summer, when we often have a bit more time,
Complicated, complex or, like the pages of a book that stick together after being dropped in the bath, repeated exposure to anything too fast, too much or too soon, can result in trauma. And trauma, in essence, is finding it unbearable to be with our big emotions, our bodies don’t
Perhaps a little heavy for a Thursday morning, but if you’ve experienced a Big T trauma, it’s likely not far from your thoughts most mornings. And certainly the traumas of the world, as I wrote about last week, are ever present for anyone paying attention. A Big T trauma is
What even is Religious Trauma? ▫️Is it different to other trauma?▫️Why do you talk about it so much?▫️Can I heal from this type of trauma?▫️Do I have religious trauma? These are good questions I get regularly. Religious trauma, spiritual trauma, religious abuse, spiritual rupture are all terms that people may
Not a typo although weight would have done nicely. What is healing in the context of global trauma, how do we get to be ok when there is so much suffering? Working in the humanitarian space for so long, this question was always front of mind. I got to go
In Part 1, on my last blog, I said, because we are collectivist people living in individualist societies, therapy is woefully inadequate and, it’s what we have right now. Another way in which therapy is woefully inadequate, is in the rigid way we tend to ‘do’ therapy. I’ve been following the work
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