Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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Boundaries: Yours, Mine, and Ours
A lot of us never learned boundaries growing up. Even if we did, managing them with ease and grace is not always natural. We help you define what is yours to decide on and show you ways to stand up for that. And we delve into some of the grey areas that occur when we…
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I Just Don’t Want To Feel This
– Intense feelings can be overwhelming and scary – Many of us don’t have good coping skills for “negative” emotions, especially when they are intense – Just being with it, and accepting ourselves can be powerful. Sometimes challenging – If you are having trouble, what judgement or thoughts are underlying this?
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EFT Tapping for Identity Blocks: Who Would I Be Without This?
Our identity is very important. If we have a block around changing aspects of ourselves because we aren’t sure who we’ll be, it can get in the way.
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Smoking With Shame: Finding the Need Under the Habit
We believe that smoking, like other addictions, is a symptom of underlying fears and blocks. Treating the symptom does not “cure” the problem. Unless someone is doing something immediately life-threatening (say taking heroine or crack), for us, it is not about quitting first. That would be rather like pulling a life raft away from a…
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Accepting Ourselves
Feeling good about who we are and accepting ourselves are important strengths to have on the journey to a thriving life. Are you sending a signal to the universe that you deserve abundance and love? Or one that says you’re not so sure? There is a certain symmetry to the process. As we treat ourselves…
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Building a Safer, Friendlier Relationship with Your Body
A body can feel like an unsafe place when symptoms, accidents, tension, or repeated disappointment have made every sensation seem suspicious. What looks irrational about body trust often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With body trust, the aim is not to make…
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Mindless Eating
We must eat in order to survive. Our primitive brain knows that. And it is more than willing to wolf food on the run. Food is fuel. Without it we die. When we eat on the run, our body often gets the signal that threat is lurking, or that there is a shortage of food…