ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS
Community Garden I’m loving playing in my oh-so-manageable 400 sq. ft. plot at my Community Garden. I work alone in my little plot – it’s more than plenty for my needs. As a member of the community, I’m expected to do 6 hours of community work each season. My time to contribute is coming, and … Read more
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
So many of us are empaths – we feel other people’s energy and emotions. In fact, the Internet is riddled with posts and articles about Emotional Vampires, Energy Vampires and other treatises on managing sensitivity. Feeling Other People’s Stuff Doesn’t Make You A Better Healer When healing practitioners feel their patients energy and emotions or … Read more
Sing it: There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays! Do you watch, hum along to the holiday jingles – and HOPE? Might the holiday go by without a snap, a slap or feeling like crap? Tingling and longing – could we all just get along? Hoping and humming – could we all just be … Read more
A $45, 1-Hour Online Course Tell me! Do you want to surf above the holiday fracas and avoid an Energetic Tsunami? Because don’t look now…the holidays are here! It’s true – we made it past Halloween and now the full onslaught of festivus begins. Looked in any retail store windows lately? You’ll know it’s true! … Read more
In the energy world, travelers may find themselves navigating varying terrain in the journey and quest to choose an appropriate practitioner for support and efficacious healing. Yes, this is part of the ongoing BYOH [Be Your Own Healer] series! Yes, CK’s still advocating BYOH – the more the better! Yet not every skill and resource … Read more
It’s been a rough couple of weeks professionally. Here’s what I’ve witnessed: Situation 1 – a friend of a friend described her energy healing training to me. Here’s one major teaching she’s learned and practices: When walking down the street, shopping, hanging out in a park or bowling alley – scan and fix other people’s energy. … Read more
Well now, what does that mean, exactly? Is CK advocating that you go back to school and become a doctor, nurse, therapist, psychologist? No. Not really. After all, I’d have to walk that talk, and you wouldn’t catch me spending my precious time that way! CK is advocating taking up your own work within yourself, … Read more
Last week a dear friend was sharing a story with me. As she was talking, she said, ‘I don’t know how I went from guilt to the bottom of the rabbit hole, but that’s what I did.’ She continued on with her story, and I attentively listened. But that phrase stuck with me. … Read more
It sucks when you’re stuck. And we’ve all been there. Bogged down. Effort & Pushing. Ennui & Passivity. Doesn’t matter. Stuck. Yet all of us have gotten unstuck. Moving. In flow. Praise be! What’s the formula for going from stuck to flow? Releasing attachment. Hanging a tapestry with industrial strength velcro was a simple task. … Read more