Suffering + Self-Compassion
You have a gift.
Perimenopause & Collective Liberation
Saying Yes to "No"
From Surviving to Thriving: The Art of Drawing Boundaries
Resources
Emotional Dysregulation: The Missing Link of ADHD
For those of us with ADHD, the pain of rejection and high sensitivity is real. The overwhelm can come on quickly and it can leave us feeling powerless, which only compounds our guilt and shame.
Hearts and other stuff that matters.
One summer many years ago, I found an unusual amount of heart rocks in the course of a month while housesitting at the beach. The first day, I discovered at least ten. Each subsequent day after that, revealed more heart rocks than the day before. That was when my personal mythic language began speaking to me.
Stronger for it
When love breaks our hearts, there can sometimes be a refrain that echoes: I’ll never let anyone else hurt me again, and sometimes that can reverberate for years. When love does appear again, if we have not closed our hearts’ doors completely, we might give it another go. Does it work out this time? For a few, it might. For many of us, we find ourselves repeating the same patterns unknowingly and when the newness settles,
What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
Expressive arts therapy is a field of humanistic psychotherapy that uses various forms of art for healing, growth, and transformation…
The Parts & the Path
Several years ago, I was emerging from a cocoon, a cocoon of interior design. Somewhere in the pit of my stomach, in the pit of my soul, a flower, one that had always been there really, it began to bloom. To walk on the path, to become conscious, is to acknowledge when a deep longing is summoning you….
Dreaming for Creativity
Having choice can help us feel more expansive and free. Choice not only opens up doors, but paints in new windows where there were only walls…
My EXA manifesto
Here is my EXA Manifesto:
The imaginal realm allows us to envision and embody new choices.
Creativity creates choice.
Having choice increases resiliency…
The 5 Ways
Project: Flow to Flourish
Our world is not okay. There is a growing deficit in our collective wellbeing (Dahl et al., 2020; Maté & Maté, 2022). The National Council for Mental Wellbeing (2022) reports that approximately 70% of Americans, or 223.4 million (para. 2), have experienced at least one kind of trauma in their lives…
Essay: Dream Magic Tapestry
Essay: Cultural Resilience in Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
What is Expressive Art Therapy Anyway?
Expressive Art Therapy (EXAT) is a kind of psychological counseling that incorporates multiple modalities of expressive arts to aid and assist in the process of healing, recovery, growth, self-exploration, social change, and for making meaning of our lives and the world…