Energetic Boundaries

Emotional Entanglement – Countertransference Do you have any idea what it’s like to sit in a therapeutic/healing  session and discover that what the patient is describing is similar to what’s occurring in your own experience?  It happens all the time! It’s called countertransference. And it’s a wild and woolly experience for a practitioner! If you … Read more

Collaboration & A Community Garden

Day 1 – Community Garden I’m thrilled. I applied for and nearly immediately received a plot in a community garden. Many of the gardens that I perused online had multiple year waiting lists. I waited less than 4 weeks and was given (for $100/year) a 400 sq. ft. plot – 20 x 20, enclosed in … Read more

Meet. Greet. Complete.

Meet The issue, person, emotion, physical pain, mental musing, spiritual crisis head on.  Straight up. Say hello. Invite it in. Even if it terrifies you.   Greet The underlying story, the root cause analysis, the underbrush and move in to the work. Yes, exactly.  Just do it. A meet and greet is just that – … Read more

Petulant Pain-body

Pain-body is Painful Truly painful. And petulant. Touchy. Techy. Fractious. Cranky. One client recently made the connection between ignoring internal insights and the onset of sinus infections. Clears that up, right? A colleague with a chronic injury clearly perceives the difference between true physical pain and pain-body responses. Before working to alleviate physical pain, he … Read more