“How can I trust that this is really real?” asked a student in one of my dreamwork classes.
A few days later, a private client said to me, “I don’t believe in my own reality."
Do either of these sound familiar?
If they do, you’re far from alone, but before we unpack...
In my advanced dream workshops, students are invited to share their dreams with the group.
Sometimes I work on a dream with the student in real time so that they and the group can learn from this practice together.
Sometimes students help each other work on their dreams.
Sometimes people,...
My first memory of depression is from the fifth grade. As if I had walked into a thick cloud bank, things that used to feel clear were now obscured. Joy receded into the background and sadness closed in around me. My back ached and my heart was heavy as lead. Nothing was right with the world....
Have you ever gotten a paper cut? A paper cut is a small, but often painful, breach of your body’s boundaries. Where you had skin before, now you have a wound, and when you have a wound you’re more vulnerable to losing vital fluids or contracting infection by viruses or bacteria....
“Our chest, rising and falling, knows that the strange verb “to be” means more simply “to breathe”; it knows that the maples and the birches are breathing, that the beaver pond inhales and exhales in its own way, as do the stones and the mountains and the pipes...
There’s a dense fog outside my window. There’s a grey hue inside my mind. There’s a flat, dull affect to everything I see. There’s a murkiness to my thoughts. I reach for words, for memories, and they float through the fog, just out of reach. I have low motivation to go...
I am a strong, smart, powerful woman. I create my own reality and that reality is abundant, nurturing, and fun…
…that is, until I encounter a life situation where I feel powerless, dumb, deficient, or frustrated!
Have you ever tried to use affirmations to shift your reality, only...
“It could be worse,” I say to myself as I struggle through a day of mild chronic pain. I live with chronic illness and some days, some weeks, some months, even some years are better than others. But I have friends, colleagues, and clients with chronic illness who are in and out of the...
