Category: Recovery

  • 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…

  • How to Stop Ruminating

    How to Stop Ruminating

    When we make a mistake, or something really uncomfortable happens in our lives our minds tend to play and replay the scene over and over again.  We think, “if only I could have done things differently,” and then our mind shows us the movie over and over again.  This is called ruminating.   A rumination…

  • Healing Waters: Cleansing the Energetic Body

    Healing Waters: Cleansing the Energetic Body

    Feeling stressed out? You’re not alone, simply being human means that we often find ourselves in a stressful environment.  One that is filled with an overwhelming amount of high emotions, different people and situations, not to mention electronics and pollution.  Look around, it’s no wonder why we feel so out of whack! So how do we remain…

  • 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…

  • Celebrating Tulips

    Celebrating Tulips

    On occasion I have the opportunity to visit one of the many incredible places and spaces a client has described during a meditation.  It is surreal to visit a place that I have connected so deeply with during the trance process, a place that I have visited together within our hearts and minds.   This…

  • Emotional Health Resources

    Emotional Health Resources

    Below is a long list of links and resources.  I am happy to provide these links to you but I am obviously not responsible for the content of other sites. When in doubt, call 911 and/or go to the nearest emergency room. General Information:** National Sexual Violence Resource Center: This site offers a wide variety of…

  • Healing Books

    Healing Books

    A list of inspiring books for you.  I love to read and am happy to share with you a few that I’ve loved, read, and would recommend! Faith: Trusting your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg Sharon Salzberg, a buddhist teacher, speaks beautifully about the journey of faith, healing, and cultivating peace.     Beauty…

  • The Ocean of Impermanence

    The Ocean of Impermanence

    Curious about the Buddhist idea of impermanence? Ask the ocean. For a moment, imagine sitting on a soft, white sandy beach looking out towards the ocean, waves moving in towards shore. Start to notice the ocean rise and fall, through her beautiful cycles of waves. Some waves meet the shore with a firework of explosion,…

  • Hawk Meditation

    Hawk Meditation

    What I love about the symbol Hawk is that he is a perfect balance of bold and powerful, yet peaceful and flowing free.  Hawk can see everything crystal clear from above- Hawk has a keen perspective on life, able to soar above and beyond what is happening below him.  Hawk is fully aware of his…