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Living In the Uncertainty of Pregnancy
The grand theme of these thoughts are to listen and trust the wisdom of your body. When I work with women in the perinatal stages of their lives, I am struck by the power we exude. Set as many boundaries as you need in pregnancy. Just as your womb is set up to protect your baby, your boundaries are there to create your own sort of nest. I send you all so much love on your journey, whether you are at the very early stages of thinking about bringing a baby into the world, or you are 40 weeks pregnant and counting.
How Do We Handle Rejection Related to Our Art?
You are an artist! No matter how many people reject you or do not choose you for a project, keep making art. It can be so challenging to continue to create and perform when we don’t receive the sweet nectar of validation, but as humans, we were born to express ourselves through creativity. Trauma therapy can help with our reactions to creative rejection. When we dig deeper and find the roots of our reactions, we can unwind the pain and be released from the pull of our extreme emotions.
How to Create Secure Attachment with Nature
When we feel lost or hurt in human relationships, especially with our primary caregivers, it can be helpful to turn to our relationship with the natural world for love and guidance. We need secure attachment in our lives, and it is our birthright to feel seen, heard and felt by another living being. Nature provides a safe and loving reflection of ourselves when we slow down and listen.
How to Set Boundaries to Create Sacred Space
There are specific boundary-related challenges for women in our society. We must deeply listen to our still, strong voice inside to know what we need. Boundaries protect us from energy-sucking situations and other forms of harm in our lives. What if we let the natural boundaries that rise to the surface of our consciousness be known when we feel them?
5 Ways to Get Over A Creative Block When You Feel Uninspired
Creative blocks are one of the biggest mosquito bites in the world of an artist. As a musician and business owner, I know the chase of the elusive organism of creativity when I’ve been feeling unmotivated. Here are some ways I have crawled my way out of the stuckness and gotten back to the flow.
Electromagnetic Field, The Protective Light Around Us
Our energetic field protects us from the outside world, and gives us the radiance that highlights the gifts we bring to the world. When we have a protective and clear energy field around us, the possibilities in our life expand.
Sahasrara "Crown" Chakra, Connection to the Vast Unknown
Balancing Sahasrara Chakra can help us feel connected in a disconnected world. We start to release our individual traumas and pain to see the big picture of universal awe and magic around us.
Ajna "Third Eye" Chakra, Women Trusting Our Intuition
Honoring Ajna Chakra is about letting go and trusting that we do have the answers without looking outside of ourselves. Let’s unlock our natural abilities to feel for the answers by leaning into somatic therapy for women.
Vishuddha "Throat" Chakra, Using our Voice to Alchemize Anxiety
When we are claiming our place in this world, anxiety can clog up our throat center through various experiences that instill self-doubt. By focusing on unblocking Vishuddha, we can alchemize this anxiety into electric creative energy that frees our voice.
Anahata "Heart" Chakra, Holding our Trauma with Compassion
Anahata Chakra is an energy center that is necessary for trauma healing. When we are able to reach our resource of compassion in the heart, we can finally give those wounded parts of ourselves the love we always needed. When we realize that we deserve unconditional love (because we do), we deepen our ability to live in this world with a sense of meaning.
Balancing Manipura Chakra in the Natural World
When we work with the powerful energies of Manipura, our third chakra, in the natural world, we see our own strength and innate power reflected back towards us. Akin to the radiating strength of the sun, our capabilities are limitless.
Unblocking Svadhisthana "Sacral" Chakra for Women to Heal
We continue our exploration through the chakra system, and dive into the balances and imbalances that relate to trauma in our lives. Svadhisthana Chakra is our place of sensuality and creativity, and by engaging the chakra, thus freeing up stagnation, women can create a loving relationship with our expression, sexuality, and creativity.
Balancing Muladhara "Root" Chakra to Release Anxiety
We continue our exploration through the chakra system, and dive into the balances and imbalances that relate to trauma in our lives. Muladhara Chakra is the place of rootedness in our body, and when we slow down and visualize, we can release trauma that has created anxiety, instability, and pain in the lower body.
Processing Trauma Through The Chakra System
Exploring the Chakra system through visualization and physical sensation can help us notice where we are misaligned, and gain further insight into our traumas. Through this meditative practice, we can unravel the “knots” of trauma that collect in our body/mind/spirit.
Performance Anxiety and Imposter Syndrome
Feeling like an imposter is a painful human experience. The debilitating effects sometimes freeze us in our tracks when we are doing what we were meant to do. Relaxing the nervous system, and reframing old stories can provide immense relief.
Navigating Life as a Woman with ADHD
Navigating life as a woman with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) can feel like you are drowning in the wild ocean of everyday life. There is hope and a unique path to navigate the map of your mind, body and soul with the diagnosis of ADHD.
Freedom Through Songwriting in Nature
Going out into nature with an intention related to your own creativity will bring you a deeper understanding of yourself and the unique gifts you bring to the world. If you are a musician or an artist, you may see your craft in a new way. If you don’t consider yourself an artist, you may unlock an artist part of yourself you’ve never met.
Pendulation and Processing Trauma
When we have experienced any sort of trauma or upsetting situation, we are yearning for a way to process these emotions and let them go. Pendulation is the practice of moving between pleasant and unpleasant feelings to shift smoothly in the numerous transitions we will encounter throughout our lives.
Postures to Improve Performance and Release Anxiety
Performance is a unique experience of deep vulnerability, which can invoke anxiety in many people. Research is revealing that we can create our own reality by holding certain postures to reduce anxiety, and create confidence.
Building Relationship with the Natural World
When we get past the notion that we are separate from the natural world and realize that we actually are a part of, there is great freedom and peace. Wilderness therapy is a way to process trauma and connect us more deeply to ourselves while developing an unshakeable resource that will be wherever we go: nature.