Aug 173 min read
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 2412 min read
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 2415 min read
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 2410 min read
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 203 min read
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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Apr 30, 202310 min read
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 24, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20232 min read
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 19, 20233 min read
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 15, 20239 min read
Persona, more formally
I recently applied to the masters in counseling psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. It was hard to imagine applying...
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Feb 14, 20236 min read
Removing the mask of persona
I had a bit of renown by senior year of college at Tufts University. Having organized with Environmental Consciousness Outreach the three...
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Feb 13, 20235 min read
Taking the Red Pill & Living Ceremonially
I set out toward the river, to peer down from the look out point to where the salmon jump up the tiered stream. The salmon weren't...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
Entranced by Interbeing & Belonging
Today I offer a hypnotic trance that invites you into a sense of shared sentience with Earth. It is resourcing, relaxing, and...
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Feb 4, 20232 min read
Pride & Humility
I'm reading back over some of my musings from the past year, trying to drum up something to write about, to complete the fourth day of...
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Feb 1, 20233 min read
Everything is beautiful and I am so sad
This is not at all how I imagined this challenge, to write a post on this blog everyday for the month of February, beginning. I pictured...
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