Boundaries
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Father Issues: Finding Safety, Respect, and Freedom Around Father’s Day
– My Father was ____, and that makes me feel _____, and I want to feel ____.
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Resistance Can Be an Integrity Signal
We often treat resistance as an obstacle to overpower. Send the email. Make the offer. End the friendship. Do the spiritual practice. Stop procrastinating. Sometimes resistance is fear. Sometimes it is fatigue, uncertainty, or an old protective response. And sometimes it is the part of us that cares deeply about integrity saying, Something about this…
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A Proactive Approach to Safety: Trust Your Body and Plan Before You Need It
(FREE Audio) This is the outline and recording for the call Pro-Active Approach to Safety which is a part of our Body Vitality Workshop as we focus on Body Safety with co-hosts Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli. We are joined on the call by Vivian Cannataro, EFT expert from Toronto who specializes in using EFT…
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Creating Safe and Healthy Boundaries
Healthy boundaries are crucial for feeling safe. In this Body Vitality Workshop call, we look at what is a boundary, the different types, boundary violations, why it is so hard to set boundaries, body guidance, emotional guidance, having a good NO, and feeling safe in your body through practicing boundaries consciously.
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Body Vitality Workshop
Our intention with the Body Vitality Workshop is to help you… – develop an amazing relationship with your body… – help it feel surprisingly safe, calm, and confident… – listen to and follow its intuitive guidance… – consciously direct its vibrational trend towards total well-being… – and delight in the pleasures of food, movement, and…
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When Someone’s Anger Makes Your Body Submit
Some of us become agreeable, careful, small, or intensely helpful the moment another person sounds angry. We may call it weakness or people-pleasing. The body may understand it as survival. If anger once belonged to someone bigger, stronger, unpredictable, or essential to our care, looking submissive could reduce danger. Alertness helped us notice every change…
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Wanting Is Not the Same as Demanding
For some people, the phrase “I want” carries far more charge than three small words should. Wanting may have been called selfish. Power may have meant aggression. Speaking up may have led to ridicule, conflict, or the loss of friendship. We may believe the only proof of personal power is confronting someone—even when another response…