Create a more compassionate relationship with yourself
A few years ago, I was introduced to therapist and healer Francis Weller and his beautiful book, The Wild Edge of Sorrow. In this book, Francis invites us into a conscious and courageous relationship with grief and sadness. Grief and sadness offer … [Read more]
These past few weeks we've been exploring the ways we can use food to regulate our nervous system in the When Food is Your Mother class. One of the topics that's come up is how high sensitivity can lead to a 'build up' of stimuli that seeks relief … [Read more]
In the Listen class this week, we're exploring our relationship with cravings - befriending their energy and the cry, underneath them, for help. Cravings can be such fierce things, and we can shy away from their appearance. And yet cravings, at … [Read more]
A few weeks ago I wrote about meeting a new friend, Eugena Maguire of Parenting Human Beings. Eugena is a Canada based social worker, parent coach, and former 'struggling foster parent' who created a podcast, Unpacking Depression, where she … [Read more]
There's a beautiful poem by Penny Harter, When I Taught Her How to Tie Her Shoes, that begins like this: A revelation, the student in high school who didn't know how to tie her shoes. I took her into the book-room, knowing what I … [Read more]
I have a dear friend who spent the last year going in and out of the hospital, caring for complications from a major illness. His body was in such a stressed state that going to sleep was near impossible. So he'd watch movies and TV shows until … [Read more]