Trauma

We all make mistakes. In my work, I often find that people feel trapped by these mistakes, like they should be defined by them or that somehow having made a mistake in the past that they cannot change it. But that is simply not true.…

This weekend I had an amazing time attending my first EMDRIA conference, which is a gathering of EMDR therapists that happens once a year. This year one of the guest speakers was Gabor Maté. He is a Hungarian born Canadian doctor who has done a…

We all experience stress and we all blame it on something, and to some degree this is true. But it is also very true that the stress comes from how we respond. And I would also argue that it is our thoughts, our feelings and…

This is always a good reminder that each of us carries around a story that others do not see. This is true for all of us. So, I encourage you to not judge a book by its cover and remember that we each carry hurts…

How often we ignore our bodies and what it wants and needs. Sure, in the normal course of things people eat when they are hungry, drink when they are thirsty and rest when they are tired. But our society is not set up to let…

For whoever needs to hear this today….you are enough. So many of the women (and the men) that I work with have a deep and abiding belief that they are not enough. Often, they learn this lesson early in life in their families. That lesson…