Why self-regulation isn’t enough is a topic that has been rumbling about in the back of my mind for some time now. This recent essay from Tad Hargrave has brought it forward and spurred me into writing about it. According to Arlin Cuncic, “emotional self-regulation refers to the ability to manage disruptive emotions and impulses […]
The Confusion Of ‘What We’re Told’ versus ‘What We Feel’
Last week I wrote that even when our bodies/nervous systems are being activated into fight, flight, freeze or fawn AS IF they are under threat (when our lives aren’t actually in danger), our bodies can be trusted. Further, I wrote that ‘Intensity does not always indicate Truth‘ and that it is important to learn to: discern […]
We Can Trust Our Bodies
Our bodies are to be trusted. We can trust what we feel in our bodies. While we can trust our bodies, it is also true that unresolved trauma (both our own and our ancestors’) lives in our bodies and nervous systems. This means that not everything we feel in our bodies is rooted in and […]
Expansion And Contraction
There’s a conversation happening in the Witchy Healer Wisdom School centered around the backlash that can happen after a time of increased goodness. For instance, perhaps you experience a much better day than usual – more connection, more joy and ease, more of a sense of aliveness, less physical pain even perhaps. And then, the […]
Eight Beliefs I Hold About Healing
Over the past year or so, it’s become apparent to me that I hold some fairly specific beliefs about what healing is (and about what it isn’t). Today, I’m going to share what I’ve come to believe over the past two and a half decades of being on a healing journey myself and of facilitating […]
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