- Aug 17
- 3 min
The Critical Question when it Comes to the Inner Critic
This is the most powerful question to cut through the inner critic: “What do I need?” Like any bully, something sets the inner critic...
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- May 24
- 12 min
Becoming Hawkish: An Individuation Journey
This was a final paper for Analytical (Jungian) Psychology, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute....
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- May 24
- 15 min
The Initiatory Power of Menstruation
This was a final paper for Human Growth & Development, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It...
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- May 24
- 8 min
Gestalt Therapy: An Introduction
This was a final paper for Counseling and Psychotherapeutic Theories & Techniques, a course in my masters in counseling program at...
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- May 24
- 10 min
Somatic Psychology & the Liberation of Libido
This was a final paper for Introduction to the Theories of the Depth Tradition, a course in my masters in counseling program at Pacifica...
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- Mar 20
- 3 min
The Courage to Feel
"I can't feel you," he says with despair in his eyes. I stare back at him blankly. Strangely, I resist the urge to smirk. When we first...
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- Aug 3, 2023
- 4 min
Why Hypnosis?
As I prepare for my final supervision session before earning my certification as a hypnotherapist (woot woot!) it felt right to revisit...
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- Jun 26, 2023
- 2 min
Life Doesn't Owe You Anything
I’m on the top of a red rock mesa. Stunted junipers, flowering cliff rose and bright red penstemon, the desert sun. I can’t remember the...
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- Apr 30, 2023
- 10 min
Dissolution
The rain had moved through, leaving thick clumping clouds, darkened and milky, and whipped with the peach of the setting sun. A vast sky...
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- Feb 28, 2023
- 1 min
Metamorphosis Bliss
I wrote out this trance for a group I'm a part of that is exploring the metamorphosis phase of the journey of soul initiation. The point...
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- Feb 27, 2023
- 3 min
Talking Dirty with Earth
I'm walking in the greenbelt on this beautiful sunny spring day. The breeze whips crab apple, Texas barberry, and mountain laurel nectars...
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- Feb 26, 2023
- 3 min
The Song of the Soul
Poetry is like the dream, always a step ahead of us. We fall in love with a poem well before we know what it means. Years later, after...
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- Feb 25, 2023
- 1 min
Love letter to the peas, the Fabulous fabacaea
Of all the specimens I collected, plastered to my index cards with packing tape, writing the latin and common names, the family, it was...
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- Feb 24, 2023
- 5 min
May the birds of your attention truly land
I'm sitting at the kitchen table again, checking my email, when a mourning dove lands on the railing of the balcony. Now, I know the...
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- Feb 23, 2023
- 4 min
Believing your life matters
Right around this time a year ago I got slammed by my first full on somatic trauma flashback. I actually pretty much brought it on...
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- Feb 22, 2023
- 2 min
Casting yet another fly
My god I don't want to write today. I did everything to avoid it...went for a walk, did a workout, baked a dutch baby, convinced my cat...
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- Feb 21, 2023
- 5 min
Enough for now
I'm sitting at my kitchen table. It is pretty dark in the condo since I've got no lights on and the sun has just begun its walk from the...
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- Feb 20, 2023
- 2 min
Hypnotic Happy Hour
Yesterday was a rough day for me. The night before I got swallowed by a trauma vortex I had been telling myself I was healed from. Then I...
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- Feb 19, 2023
- 3 min
Love, Me
Sweet sweet girl. Strong one, earnest one, hurting one. Your tears are nectar to me, your tenderness a precious gift, your anxiety and...
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- Feb 17, 2023
- 3 min
Symbols: the power of the psychophysical
Months after failing miserably to reclaim my projection in the Heart Warrior Council, I felt ready to try again. I needed to. I had to...
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