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Knowing What We Want
It's hard isn't it? to know what we want? For most of us that clarity has been obscured by layers of information from external sources. The explicit and implicit expectations, demands and judgments from the context that our neurobiological/physiological/emotional systems grew in, had to adapt in ways that might have kept us from knowing what we wanted. We adapt, that is our saving grace, the thing that kept us alive, what helped us to get here. Are there consequences? Of cou
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Oct 105 min read


Thoughts on reality and the programs that shape it
I’m wondering if you’ve noticed the deep disruptions the world is currently moving through. It’s hard not to hear, not to see, the countless accounts of a world in chaos, in transition, a world experiencing a painful, often violent evolution. I know none of this is new. We’ve been caught in this cycle of upheaval, power struggles, hierarchies, and exploitative systems designed to place themselves above consequence, quietly benefiting from the misery, exclusion, and annihilati
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Jun 144 min read


Finding steadiness on shaky ground
It hasn’t been easy to sit with the state of the world over these past few months. Whether you actively follow the news or receive information unsolicited, the effects of our world’s alarming developments can disrupt our routines, destabilize our functioning, and increase fear and confusion. I speak, of course, from a place of privilege—having experienced relative peace in my daily life, a degree of autonomy, and some level of predictability around what comes next. This is a
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Jan 192 min read


Inviting the Body to Feel Safe
Emotions are felt in the body, they come up and ignite a remembered response, familiar and practiced throughout our life. Although the...
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Jul 19, 20254 min read


Finding your Pace and Rhythm
I'm curious if you've noticed how quickly things seem to speed up lately. I often hear how difficult it is to "keep up" with the demands...
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Sep 22, 20242 min read


Acceptance as a practice
I know it's hard, it isn't easy to accept so much of what affects us. It's not easy to sit with the discomfort of things as they are at...
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Mar 18, 20243 min read


Trauma and Therapy- an interview with MumAbroad
Recent interview with MumAbroad, an international resource publication that serves expats in Europe, on the topic of Trauma; how, and...
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Jan 13, 20241 min read


Daily (or almost daily or whenever needed) Practice, a List of Tools.
The importance of creating some sort of daily practice for ourselves has never felt more important and necessary, at least that's my...
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Aug 12, 20233 min read


Finding the Space to Be You
There is so much attention these days, so much talk around the topic of authenticity. I understand the need, I even see how the ways in...
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Jun 5, 20232 min read


Useful Tools
I invite you to visit my professional Instagram account, https://www.instagram.com/expattherapybarcelona/, there you will find useful...
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Jun 5, 20231 min read


Trauma, PTSD talk and the tools that help
Recent talk on Trauma, PTSD and the tools that help to a group of Dow Jones Journalists on the front lines of our planet's unrest. So...
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Jan 25, 20231 min read


EMDR and Trauma
Interview by Carina Greweling of Thrive Podcast a mindful living podcast that combines Eastern and Western wisdom and technologies to...
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Sep 8, 20221 min read


Making Peace with the Inner Critic
I know you know what I mean when I speak of the inner critic. You know that voice that judges, criticizes and demeans your efforts or...
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Aug 29, 20224 min read


It's Just A Story
I've been thinking a lot lately about the stories that surround, inform and uphold us. Collectively, we are shaped and guided by endless...
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Jul 18, 20223 min read


Learning to be yourself
Given that we didn't choose the contexts we grew up in, it's no wonder so many of us feel challenged at 'being ourselves'. l mean, of...
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May 21, 20223 min read


New Blog Post for MumAbroad
An expat views on being an expat therapist in Barcelona. https://mumabroad.com/expat-psychotherapy-support/
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Mar 10, 20221 min read


After the Freeze, the Thawing
It's been two years since we began to deal with what would become a world wide pandemic with far reaching and life threatening...
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Jan 30, 20223 min read


The Rug From Under Your Feet: Let Go and Stay Put.
I can probably say with some level of certainty that most of us may have heard this saying; 'it's like having the rug pulled out from...
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Dec 26, 20213 min read


Happiness is a Learning Process
Some words carry a heavy burden, happiness, I feel is one of those words. There are few others that hold such high expectations, the...
isa8457
Oct 10, 20213 min read


Grief, the Tenderizer, is a Thorough Teacher
Recently I experienced a loss, a big one. My Kundalini Yoga teacher passed, suddenly at the age of 42. The shock of this loss, the gaping...
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Aug 7, 20214 min read
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