This post is part of a series of modern love letters to the 12 Steps. To start at the very beginning, read To Whom We Owe Our Recovery: Modern Love…
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. – Aeschylus Our lives are composed of cycles within cycles within cycles. Rhythms of pause and motion run through our experiences….
One of the beauties of human life is to consider how the core blueprint of our lives – our nature, purpose, and path – repeats and reappears in different strata…
Codependent Relationships Thwart Growing Up Individuation is the psychological journey of becoming a whole, unique individual in our own right. A life-long process, individuation is how we gradually polish the…
We know that the present moment is where the good stuff is. As gilded as our fantasies may be, and as rose tinted our past, true deep body satisfaction is…
There is a type of Somatic Therapy called Somatic Experiencing, developed by trauma-work pioneer Peter Levine. Somatic Experiencing, as the name implies, helps people release trauma patterning through learning to…
Sometimes, on the winding, yellow-brick road back home to ourselves, we get tired. Our spirits flag, and we lose motivation for a spell. On such days we might ask ourselves,…
This post is part of a series of modern love letters to the 12 Steps. To start at the very beginning, read To Whom We Owe Our Recovery: Modern Love…
“Hello Darkness, My Old Friend” I always loved the lyric, “Hello darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again” from the song Sounds of Silence by Paul…
The Yin-Yang of Seasons In the northern hemisphere, this time of year represents the seeds of sunlight buried in the most lightless pockets of earth, so that within the darkest…
