ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS
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
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 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
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
A Chakra Khan Story Chakra Khan spent years out of her body. Years, truly. Childhood memories? Relatively few. In school, weird dissociated feelings when taking tests: was that material ever even mentioned in class? Or even stranger, the vague feeling that some of the subjects and lessons crossed the cranium, but others never came close! … Read more
‘Metaphysical’ Nonsense Yesterday CK saw a post on her Facebook feed from a well-known purveyor of New Age and ‘metaphysical’ content. It was all about Contracts. How each of us creates a series of contracts that we bring in with us. They’re inviolate, we’re stuck with them and that’s how life rolls. Lordy, lordy – … Read more