Category: Connection

  • Transform Your Self Talk through Mindfulness & Emotional Self Care

    Transform Your Self Talk through Mindfulness & Emotional Self Care

    A beautiful outcome of mindfulness meditation is the opportunity to slow down and explore our relationship with our minds.  We meditate to understand the stories we tell ourselves about our lives and experiences. Oftentimes life can be uncomfortable and we respond to this discomfort by tuning out literally or figuratively by showing up impartially for…

  • Embodying Fearlessness

    Embodying Fearlessness

    The beauty of my job as a clinician  is that I am constantly inspired and surrounded by the most fearless people in the world. I meet amazingly resilient men and women who have survived trauma, abuse, life challenges… you name it, they’ve been through it, they’ve seen it all. And survived. I still remember a…

  • A Guide to Cultivating Self Care

    A Guide to Cultivating Self Care

    With all of the hustle, bustle, and newness of moving, I recently realized that I hadn’t made space in my life to create a self care routine in my new city.  And without a nourishing routine of treating myself with lovingkindness, I can be on a fast track to burnout. When we are feeling exhausted, like there’s nothing left…

  • Embracing Curiosity

    Embracing Curiosity

    Yesterday I started anew here in Oregon, it was my first day of work at a new job. I felt the familiar tingle of fear of the unknown, which honestly looked like a hundred outfits thrown all over my floor. Starting a new job is messy, we are met with a thousand different, contradicting, and…

  • The 5 Love Languages

    The 5 Love Languages

    What I love about the 5 love languages is that they offer us an opportunity to deepen our awareness of how we perceive and show our love to the people we care about in our lives. The 5 Love Languages is a book written by Dr. Gary Chapman, an intimacy expert.  They were written to…

  • Interviewing with Confidence

    Interviewing with Confidence

    Interviewing has been a popular topic in my life lately as I transition to life in Portland.  New city means looking for a new part time job while I establish myself and my practice. Which all means that there will be interviews. Regardless if you love or hate interviews, odds are we all have to…

  • Exploring Beauty

    Exploring Beauty

    John O’donahue, the late Irish poet and philosopher, weaves beauty and spirituality in a way that is magnificent.  He shares: “The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling, a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form. This is a beauty that has suffered its way through…

  • My Favorite TED Talks

    My Favorite TED Talks

    It’s no secret, I love TED talks.  Anyone who has ever worked with, or known me for that matter, knows that I am constantly recommending a talk or two.  Today I share with you a list of some of my all time favorite talks. I hope that they inspire you in the way that they…

  • Deep Listening

    Deep Listening

    While I was driving down the Pacific Coast Highway on my way to work today, I was listening to an interview on my favorite Podcast show- On Being, and it dawned on me that there seemed to be this really special pause between when the interviewer spoke and the interviewee responded.   It felt like the…

  • Sympathy vs. Empathy

    Sympathy vs. Empathy

    Today in my Inner Peace group we talked about vulnerability, which ultimately led us to a discussion about sympathy versus empathy. Everyone literally cringed at the mention of the word sympathy.  We shared how we felt when people had a sympathetic response to our life’s challenges and stories.  How it made us feel terrible when…