Genevieve Saenz, LMFT and PassageWay Arts

06/11/2025

Here is my math: Love is a current that nurtures us all (rather than a currency), The work of love is to allow it to flow through us, We do that by releasing attachments & perceptions of the other (if you love something let it go etc.), love flows through us (and touches us too) when we open our hearts and allow the other to be exactly what they are. How can you let more love flow in your life?

01/02/2025

The first ten cards from my handmade tarot deck; The Wheel, The Hermit, Strength, The Chariot, The Lovers, The Hierophant, The Emperor, The Empress, The High Priestess, The Magician, and The Fool.

These blog posts will be up on my website indefinitely (musings page) if you ever want more clarity from any of these cards.

Thanks for playing

12/20/2024

Oh, did I mention that the whole countdown is tarot? Yeah, to be clear; ir is daily clarity from a tarot card. 🔦Can’t wait to start sharing it with y’all tomorrow. Sign up now if you want to join.

12/17/2024

I can’t tell you how to gain clarity. However I am going to lay a path towards some insights and invite you to walk that path with me over the course of the countdown at the end of the month. (It starts 12/21 and you can sign up today for free via the link in my bio)

BUT I can guarantee you one thing; Here is the core of it; you wont find clarity if you don’t want it. Sometimes we think we want to know…but actually what we want is to feel resolved. Clarity is not resolution, in fact clarity can bring with it a sense of being unsettled. Gaining clarity can take a second, or it can drag on for years and years. Sometimes it doesn’t even come without a good deal of hindsight. That is why I can’t guarantee it or tell you how you get it in this workshop. 🔦Gaining clarity requires
1. A true desire to know
2. Bravery and integrity to really look
3. Tolerance for the emotions that may come
4. willingness to act on what you find!!!
My point is, clarity, while vital to all heathy change, is also kind of a lot of work.

So if you don’t want to know, just skip that question, friends. Your honest buy in matters more to me than getting tons of sign ups this year.

Its okay.

It really is.

Being clear is not mandatory for everyone, every day.

But if you, like me, are so deeply full of curiosity. If you really really want to grow and to evolve and to shift and to move more into all that you are…if the world just feels so so confusing….

Then grab your flashlight and follow me.

Let’s see what we can uncover.

12/17/2024

It is countdown season!!! Hope you will consider joining us this year. It starts 12/21 and sign up is live now.

THE 2024 Conscious Countdown is here!!!!- Runs from 12/22 to new years day- Free (you can always pay me if you want to though)- Will not sign you up for other lists or sell your info- Revelations likely… if you do the work

12/10/2024

CLARITY- a few weeks ago while watering my living room plants I caught a glimpse of something out of place. There, clinging a to a pot was a tiny anole lizard. … He looked at me and I looked at him and in that moment we made a pact. He could stay as long as he helped me understand something. We made no agreement about what exactly he would help me understand but something

Weeks go by and I have no sign of him. Obviously, my thought is he’s returned to the wide world or perished from lack of sustenance.

Then one day sitting on my couch, I hear a plop and he’s dropped down onto my fern, alive and well. Well, well, I think what is the lesson here?

Perhaps something about life continuing on even when we’re not looking directly at it.

As I build this year‘s workshop on clarity, I am realizing that I make these little deals with animals. Plants, the universe, the weather all the time I’m constantly asking the world around me to help me SEE something in all that I look at.

Some people have such clear vision that perhaps they don’t need these little signs to gain clarity the way I do. But if you are like me and you constantly wonder what it is, you’re exactly supposed to be learning on this planet, then I hope you’ll consider joining the countdown this year.

I can’t guarantee that the pact we make will bear fruit, but I can guarantee that I’ll do my part of it to invite you to look deeper. Friend, perhaps the clarity you need will drop into your life just in time for a bright shiny new year.

Countdown starts around solstice time and runs until new year’s day.

https://www.passagewayarts.com/links

Link to join in bio.

10/10/2024

Dear Austin Colleagues… How is your website doing?

As healers, most of our clients check us out online before they reach out. We know intellectually that a good website is crucial for the business we want to do, but it isn’t that easy... Most therapists and healers don’t have the time... or money... or energy... to update their websites. Instead, they end up with a site that describes the clients they worked with 5 years ago but not their current ideal client... and their photos end up in the generic rock-water-tree-leaf-generic-lady-on-the-couch realm.

Luckily, Sarah Griesemer and Genevieve Saenz are teaming up to offer you a one-day workshop that will:

>> Dig into ethical marketing and what should (and shouldn’t) be on your website and you’ll get CEUs to match!
>> Tap into your intuition and deeper truth with tarot card coaching to get clear on the work you WANT to do and take time to get grounded in our process
>> Update the writing on your site to accurately describe the work that you want to be doing more of

AND

A BRAND NEW WEBSITE! Seriously... included in the workshop price is a one-page Squarespace website based on one of six brand kits to choose from that span a variety of styles and feels.

Check out the details here:https://www.makemypracticebetter.com/private-practice-reboot-workshop
(Use the coupon code “REBOOT112004” to get the Early Bird rate before October 26th!!)

10/01/2024

I am writing a wedding today, y’all …. and thinking about the patriarchy; what an awkward pairing!
Thankfully I found this page of wedding quotes from “powerful women”.
And this poem…is helping a lot today too.

Habitation By Margaret Atwood-
Marriage is not
A house or even a tent
It is before that, and colder:
The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert
The unpainted stairs
At the back where we squat
Outside, eating popcorn
The edge of the receding glacier
Where painfully and with wonder
At having survived even
This far
We are learning to make fire

The thing about being a couples counselor is that you also have to do all the things you tell other people to do in their relationships in your own relationships. Anything else would be hypocrisy of course!

The same is true for celebrant work. I can’t reasonably write something that I feel is untrue. I can’t fluff and show off and be verbose about something I am not willing to actually fight for (or I guess I could, but I won’t).

So that means that as I write your wedding I am 100% thinking of my own. I am holding my own feet to the fire and asking myself “what did I need to hear when making a commitment?”, “what do I know now that I never could have known then?” And “To whom am I speaking when I write the simple phase; choosing love is choosing life?”

I want to tell the truth, always, and the truth is marriage is a slog not a sonnet. The purpose of marriage is not happiness and it certainly does NOT complete us to be in partnership.
I have seen, in my work, marriages of many years that feel as fresh and healthy as they did on day one. I have seen lovers become partners. I have seen many divorces, deaths, or slow drains. I have seen rage, mediocracy, boredom, and marriages that make people less than themselves. I have also seen marriages where the world is opened by another’s love for you. (Sometimes I see all these things in the same marriage!)
Any of these outcomes are options, but what is most likely…what I must have faith in today, is that a choice to love may be foolish, but it is never, ever, wrong.

04/23/2024

Spring time always feels like love is in the air! It is wedding season y’all, and I am just so happy to be a part of people’s big days and loving memories.

04/09/2024

Why is marking important moments n our life important? ——This is me blowing fire on the night of my 40th birthday with my talented friend I really indulged in ceremony that night and blowing fire (it took a while for me to get it) was definitely part of that. Sometimes I look at this picture just to remind myself how powerful I am. How often I can be fearless, especially when I have spent so much time in this life afraid. ——-Ceremony and ritual helps us mark milestones and make meaning, yes. But it also shapes the stories we can tell about ourselves!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I look at this picture of this little ceremony I did for myself and I remember, oh yeah, I am brave, I did that!

01/06/2024

Conscious Countdown - Love life- how did the experiment go for you?? Id really like to know... The videos are on my youtube channel indefinitely, if you missed it. Thank u to all who stepped into the flow of love with me and happy nes year

01/06/2024

The other night my body was in a lot of pain (women’s issues) 🩸🩸🩸When the pain woke me up from sleep I was startled and began to lay into myself; “ugh, you should have taken a Tylenol, you shouldn’t have eaten that burger, you should just lay here and feel this, you deserve it, it isn’t that bad, don’t wake anyone up, see there is always a price…etc.” In my exhaustion and overwhelm I began to create a torture chamber for myself; thought by thought. 😣😫😖🤕😓BUT thank goodness I had just done all this work on love!!! It was fresh in my mind and I could quickly pivot. Instead of punishing myself for the pain I stated to love myself in it… can I love this too? Even this? 💕 I got up, took that Tylenol, reminded myself that I could do hard things, got a cup of tea, told myself it was going to be okay, and stayed with my own pain in loving compassion. I can’t know if the way I spoke to myself helped the experience pass any faster, but I do know that sitting in the flow of love felt more manageable than fighting through my own judgements. 🧠🧠🧠🧠💗💗💗💗That is the power of love, it doesn’t take the pain away, but it does make life easier to bear. 💗💗💗💗💗🧠🧠🧠🧠May we all find ways in this new year to love ourselves, to love one another, to love our neighbors and our enemies, and our own shadows. Let us love!! let us live in love. I DO REALLY THINK IT COULD WORK, Y’ALL; not to save the world from its pain, but to ease the suffering. happy new year, lover.