Yogis, mystics and natural healers have long known that mind and body cannot be separated and treated as two separate entities. Advances in neuroscience and related fields are bringing new evidence and frameworks to our understanding of the mind-body connection.
Read MoreInterview With Poet Jon Boisvert
I recently interviewed poet Jon Boisvert about his new collection of poems, BORN (Airlie Press). The juxtaposition of fantasy and the rawness of the poet’s grief create an energy that drive forward a narrative both strange and familiar.
Read MoreStop, Look, and Listen…On Activism
We may not always know precisely where we are going, but we know we must take action; a movement must occur. But what is the quality of this movement? This is a critical question that is especially important in our times. Is violence justified? Is nonviolent resistance enough?
Read MoreLook At Me
When was the last time you looked at your partner—really let your gaze linger and take them in? What is it to really see your partner, to hold them in your gaze and attention. Try it. Let your gaze linger just a little longer and notice what happens.
Read MoreSuicide Grief Group
Starting September 11th 2017 this 12 week group offers support for suicide grief. Participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences and build coping skills.
Read MoreSoundwalking. Or, learning all over to listen
All soundwalks calls attention to the way that sound influences our sense of place and challenges us to consider what it is to be embodied in a place. In some cultures, the relationships native people have to the local soundscape is central to their survival.
Read MoreFive Creative Books about Trauma
Trauma is a near universal fact of life. Both popular and clinical literature on trauma are growing as we become more aware as a culture about how traumatic experiences impact us through the lifespan.
Read MoreThe Practice of Yoga
The practice of yoga is expressed in the effort to realize intention. Just touching your toes in a forward bend is not the point. The incremental surrender to the pain or tightness in your hips as you reach to get to the toes is where practice lives and breathes.
Read MoreOpening to the Presence of Loss
The impulse to “move on” is not without wisdom, as it has at points in our collective history been a matter of survival. And yet, the haste with which we transform a loss into a gain, a death into new life, can leave us with a deeper loss, a sense that we have missed the point of our own life. Loss is everywhere.
Read MoreForever – is composed of Nows –
The ability to turn towards your partner is connected to the practice of turning towards your self. Turning towards your self means inviting awareness of your own thoughts, feelings, behaviors, needs and body sensations, even when they are uncomfortable or undesirable.
Read MoreBeing Here Now
Mindfulness has been a part counseling practice and the psychotherapeutic lexicon since at least the 1970s and became more widely accepted as a valid component of mental health treatment in the early 90’s with the popularity of the so called third wave behavior therapies
Read MoreArt & Neuroscience
The last few decades of neuroscience have revealed much about the inner workings of the brain, and raised tantalizing questions about the nature of mind. Yet, long before the evolution of science, there was art.
Read MoreNot Forgotten - A Support Group for Bereaved Parents
This 6 week group offers support for parents coping with the death of a child. Participants will have an opportunity to share their experiences as parents, build coping skills and create remembrances of their children as they grow, heal and discover new meaning in loss.
Read MoreThe Story of Us
Movies like Love Story, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and the more recent Her, all present relationships that develop, grow and change forms within a complex web of culture, family and personality.
Read MoreThe Great Rolling of the World
Most of the world’s religions and cultures have a great walking story. Jesus and the Buddha are both said to have walked on water. Many tribal communities send members on a Spirit walk of one kind or another.
Read MoreDrawing Circles
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn. --Emerson
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