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  • Tolerating Joy

    Real Skills
    Tolerating Joy

    If joy triggers bracing, vigilance, or fear of the crash, nothing is wrong with you. Practice receiving goodness in safe, specific, nervous-system-friendly sips.

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  • Yearning’s Edge

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    Yearning’s Edge

    Yearning can ache, guide, sharpen, and reveal what matters. Learn to honor its life force without becoming trapped inside one picture of how fulfillment must look.

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  • Intentional Co-Thriving

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    Intentional Co-Thriving

    Thriving together takes more than proximity or mutual obligation. Explore how intentional relationships and ecosystems can nourish aliveness, courage, play, resource, and meaningful expression.

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  • Gifts + Gaps = Me!

    Gifts + Gaps = Me!

    Embracing our gifts can be HARD. Often times we have been picked on about them, ridiculed, or told not to be so “full of ourselves.” Yet our gifts are core to who we are! Some we were born into. Others we’ve had to work to cultivate. In this workshop…

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  • Getting the Most Out of Virtual Connections

    Emotional StatesSpiritual Connection
    Getting the Most Out of Virtual Connections

    Getting our connection needs met is more challenging than ever! Many of us are trying to meet our connection needs virtually… Which is great for flattening the curve of the Coronavirus… AND…How do you get the most nutrition out of your virtual connections? (Free Workshop Session)

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  • 3 Steps to Recalibrating Our Threat Sensors

    Emotional States
    3 Steps to Recalibrating Our Threat Sensors

    In times of high stress and changing concerns do you need to recalibrate your threat sensors?And how do you do that?It can be so challenging to deal with the sense of threat… and the stress that comes with it. And when the situation is changing day-to-day, with new information, what do you do? (Free coaching…

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  • Thorns & Joys

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    Thorns & Joys

    Life can offer beauty while something still hurts. Practice tending the thorn without postponing every joy—and receiving what is good without denying danger, grief, or needed action.

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  • Future Mapping for the Overthinker’s Soul

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    Future Mapping for the Overthinker’s Soul

    Your future-mapping mind may be skilled, protective, and exhausted. Learn to imagine what is good and sufficient, then return responsibility, energy, and attention to the present.

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  • Yes My Circus, But NOT My Monkey

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    Yes My Circus, But NOT My Monkey

    Your ecosystem may be your circus, but every feeling and consequence is not your monkey. Practice caring, responding, and staying connected without taking responsibility for everyone’s inner weather.

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  • Do One Small Act

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    Do One Small Act

    One small act is not an insult to a big life. Reconnect with body, choice, and what matters now through actions gentle enough to sustain relationship with yourself.

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