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When everyone sees
I feel a bit embarrassed to write about this stuff, because it feels like just being like 'wow I love my friends' but my god, I love my friends.
Coregulation
Most emotions are too much for a baby's body. You just don't have the capacity to feel through them. You need your mother, or father, to hold you – you need to borrow their nervous system capacity and regulation.
Healing skills
A repository of posts that touch on specific healing skills.
Enjoy the process
I have, recently, been sitting with the utter preciousness of the journey to reclaim wholeness.
I want you to impact me
Someone once told me that the definition of beauty is that when we find it, we want to share it. I am sure that somewhere, there is an addendum for the sacred – when we touch it, we find we cannot possibly capture it in words, and we try and try, and it is like painting the sun with your fingers on a cave wall.
I am constantly being unmade and remade
I am constantly being unmade and remade. I have lost count of the number of times I have descended into some new layer of discomfort
Money as central channel alignment
Healing in a paid container is a strange, strange thing. In an ideal world, we'd all live in a village, and your healing would come from your friends, community, elders.
Intrinsic safety
I have this vivid image of my teacher, Karl, standing in front of our Brennan energy class emanating a field of love as one of my classmates punched towards him.
What becomes harder to tolerate?
Last week, I was in a power tussle with one of my teachers. To complete my Barbara Brennan training, I needed to submit homework. My inner rebel was having absolutely none of it.
When grief comes to visit, offer her your best chair
I miss you, all the time. It’s okay, it’s a sweet ache – like my love for you floats through my cells, reminding me that you were here.
Inside out vs outside in
There is a natural, organic structure in reality. When we listen to that, we touch the essence of the thing.
The girl in the garden
Questions make her freeze. She speaks a different language, the language of energy, and she speaks it fluently, but translating is so hard.
Weaving energy lines
There's something interesting happening in me around weaving energy.
Sometimes, increasingly, when I work with people energetically, what I feel is happening is a re-weaving of lines of energy.
Touching Divinity
We awaken through our cells.
It is easy to open to the divine and leave the human behind. The beautiful angelic realms.
A pearl of attunement
The deeper I go into the mysteries, the harder it is to talk about them.
Birth, death, and the way of the warrior
Becoming whole is a process of dying and rebirthing over and over. We are these curled up creatures, muscles trembling at the effort of holding the energy configurations that we learned to keep us safe.
The mystical through the ages
Recently, someone asked me what ‘mystical’ meant to me. It was a fascinating space to articulate what had felt only intuitive before.
Four Pathways to Healing – Self, Imagined Other, Manifest Other, and the Divine
Healing happens where there is a _meeting_. To truly unburden and release the pain our parts have been carrying, they must be met, received, and witnessed.
On traveling through time
There is a place where time stops, or rather, does not exist. Expansiveness stretches out. Every inch of space becomes impossibly dense and yet completely empty.
An Algorithm for Psychological Healing
I wanted to try and put all my amorphous soapbox thoughts on paper and share them here. This is partly a love letter to IPF therapy, and partly sketches of my current working model of effective psychotherapy.