“A bird is sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the branch, but on her own wings.” -Unknown Today is my 42nd birthday. I find myself reflecting on where I am – where I have come from and what I have learned. And these words […]

“And one day I realized my demons were not demons at all. Just the things I did not want to face.” -JM Storm It takes so much courage to turn and face again the dark and painful parts of one’s history. The emotions, the memories, the realities of hurt and abandonment by those who we […]

“If there is no wind, row.” -Latin Proverb I am powerless.  So many times this past week, I heard versions of this belief – triggers taking my clients back to their earliest experiences – when they had no voice, when their feelings didn’t matter, when they were children essentially in captivity with caregivers too broken […]

“Honor your bloom. Trust your wilt. Each serves a purpose.” -Alex Elle Exhaustion, the urge to pull back, to pull away – we tend to see these as bad things, as symptoms.  But what if it is more accurate to view them as information, valuable messages from our nervous system? They are our gut and […]