The Mind-Body Way

✨Creating the reality we want to see with small but meaningful relational rituals✨

Sometimes the dream of the world we want to see seems so out of reach. The challenges too overwhelming, but I am in an age of living in my inner power which means breaking things downs into meaningful repeating relational rituals.

Weekly community dinners
Weekly partner relationship check-ins
Daily connection with the land (even if some days are just 5 minutes)
Regularly asking for and offering help to friends
Staying with relationships after the initial rush of a new concept or idea passes
(Relationships with people, community, the land, grief, myself, etc)

It’s a work in progress, but this is a definite place of deepening I’m seeing in myself. The capacity to keep tending long enough for the long term visions to take root and grow.

Part of why so many people feel empty, and what so many of us are calling in, is belonging - as people like Francis Weller and Holly Truhlar call it - a cosmology of belonging.

A cosmology of relationship. It gets remembered and rebuilt by living it.

When the amnesia takes back over, come back to the remembering. And then follow through in whatever ways you can. Big or small. And keep doing it.

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Planning some juicy fall group containers. Stay tuned.

Also calling in a few more 1:1 coaching clients - read at link in bio to find out if this is you

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Grief rituals tend to bring forth gratitude and joy, gratitude practices tend to bring forth grief. All signs of being alive, of life force and energy moving through the body and soul.

I also embrace numbness at times when it comes forward - the dorsal vagal strategies like dissociation, shutdown, numbness, collapse - are here to serve a purpose as well. To protect us, our psyches, our bodies, from what is too much to feel, to process or experience. To get us to hit a big stop button, even sometimes is a part of healing.

Yet what happens if we get stuck there, or spend way more time there than we’d like, in the numbness, shutdown, collapse? We feel less alive, we feel less connected. Less available to be present with others. And we become much easier to oppress as well.

We’ll explore the relationship between gratitude and grief in our next Refuge practice - Wed June 17th 7pm EST.

Link in bio. Suggested sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Thank you to teachers like Holly Truhlar & Francis Weller for teaching on this phenomenon, which I see clearly in the spaces I lead as well.

Some of my favorite moments are when I feel a restrictive subconscious pattern shift and a more easeful, and true way of being becomes known.

In my own work and my work with clients, I have an eye for spotting these - subconscious patterns that were once protective and adaptive - that may now function more as drains of energy and blocks to authenticity and mutually beneficial relationship.

In the past, I often would push myself to present a full decision, and my default is to take on too much, so that’s usually how my decision would lean.

In this new way of being - honesty about the in-between, I see how collaborations, projects, relationships can bloom to their fullest potential. The places I actually don’t have full alignment or capacity for stay open perhaps for a better fit to fill.

Honesty with care wherever possible, and without blame but simply truth of what’s alive.

When the journey to a destination is full of over giving and bypassing, it’s likely the end result will reflect that with some quality of inauthenticity or instability. Approaching the journey with honesty about what’s really here is setting the stage for a more holistic destination with authentic roots.

✨ Offerings ✨

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one April 22 7pm EST.

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD

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Growing capacity for complexity is good medicine for these times.

I notice as I do this practice, I can shift from an urgent, frustrated, judging, or even powerless place to a place of wide, curious, layered awareness. Over time, where I was previously stuck in freeze, I start to feel flow, ability to take a next aligned step.

In relationships, where there was tension and opposition, room is made for organic solutions, collaboration, and empathy.

✨ Offerings ✨

Earth’s Embrace - Learning to trust the river of grief together. A 2-month eco-somatic container of in-person small group immersions and integration.

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one April 22 7pm EST.

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD