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Galia Collaborative supports women and girls to deeply know and grow their power through psychotherapy, coaching, and leadership development.
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10/31/2025

Happy 7th Birthday, Galia. 💕

There are so many indescribable stories. Thank you to the beautiful team - past and present, soulful patients, trusted collaborators, and inspiring community. Thank you for being part of this story and allowing us to be part of yours.

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke

10/30/2025

We think if we can explain ourselves, we’ve healed ourselves.

Many of us who grew up as intelligent and curious and introspective have come to see ourselves as self-aware. We might even worry we are too self-aware.

We have spent lots of time and other resources figuring out the puzzle of how we came to be who we are. We can name every trait, defense, and even shadow we possess, and we can tell you exactly how each came to pass. The story is right there on the tips of our tongues.

We see our ability to intellectualize our life experiences as self-awareness – as assurance to ourselves that if we have come to understand our origins that we are no longer vulnerable to them.

Holding the narrative tightly helps us feel safe, especially when we might not have felt that safety inherently. If we know who played each role – possibly with clear victims, villains, and rescuers – we believe that we can prevent the pain that came before from finding us again.

But self-awareness is sometimes more story-awareness - an intellectualization of our experience that might actually keep us clinging to the certainty of a narrative that doesn’t actually propel us forward.

Humans love stories, and we’re really good at crafting them. But we are more than the story of who we are.

Self-awareness – in its fullest form – is not solely an intellectual endeavor. Self-awareness includes the ability to connect fully with our body sensations and our emotional worlds. A heady understanding of what’s happened or of we who we are is only part of the picture.

We need to be cautious about getting too lost in the story. Stories can help us organize what starts out as overwhelming, but held too tightly, they can keep us operating from only one narrative. Finding our way to more expansive ways of being often means getting out of the intellectual realm and tuning into sensing and feeling.

Awareness is more than intellectual understanding.

Self is more than any one story.

10/28/2025

What's your reading vibe? A, B, C, D, E, or F? Tell us below ⤵️

For details on our Shelf Care Book Club, including our selections for the next few months, visit the link in comments. 📚

10/23/2025

Not exaggerating -- I hear this all the time. And it should be a wake up call to our culture.

10/17/2025

Our Shelf Care Book Club starts soon!

We are kicking off with The Anxious Generation and then moving into topics like female rage, dystopian fiction, and then what makes a meaningful life. Something for everyone 📚

Grab all the details at the link below. 🪴

10/15/2025

It happens in many relational dynamics -- women taking on much of the cognitive and emotional work that results from feeling unacknowledged or unfulfilled (or worse).

This isn't to suggest that anyone else can do our work for us, but it's a reality of the current culture of strained relationships that women and it's important to recognize that it's happening.

10/13/2025

Unconscious being a basic b.

10/06/2025

I can't not see this now.

10/02/2025

📚 🪴 Introducing Galia's Shelf Care -- your invitation to nourish your inner life through the power of story and community. 📚 🪴

Hosted in-person by the clinicians of Galia Collaborative, each session features a carefully chosen book that encourages us to explore meaningful themes in our lives.

Whether it’s identity, relationships, resilience, or change, each discussion offers space for insight, connection, and care.

You’re welcome to join one session or many—no long-term commitment required. Just bring your curiosity, your perspective, and maybe a friend. We’ll provide the cozy space, snacks, drinks, and a warm welcome.

Gatherings are free, but we welcome donations to support our wonderful friends at Women Writing for a Change. 🫶

Learn more and register at the link below. 📚 🪴

09/28/2025

Happy Five Year Galiaversary! 🖤

We are beyond fortunate at Galia to benefit from the depth, skill, and genuine kindness of Dr. Becki Apseloff. She helps us all to connect to ourselves and our patients more fully. She models curiosity and self-awareness. She keeps us laughing with hilarious stories and her love for metal detecting.

She also leads our program and does so with so much wisdom and heart, bringing innovative paths to healing to the community.

We are grateful to know you, Becki!

09/25/2025

Seeking care takes courage, but we want to make it feel like the best decision you've made.

09/24/2025

The Enneagram is a powerful and compassionate tool for uncovering the intelligent ways you’ve learned to survive while recognizing how those patterns may be keeping you stuck.

In this series at our Odessa Healing Center, you’ll explore yourself through the lens of the Enneagram, engaging your mind, heart, and body. In this supportive space, you’ll practice seeing your patterns with compassion, welcoming parts of yourself you may have shamed or ignored, and reconnecting with the gifts we’ve forgotten.

Meagan Connley of Presence with Love will teach you how the Enneagram reveals:

🪴 Our human needs, desires, fears, and avoidances, and how our ego patterns keep us stuck
🪴 Social styles, including how we cope with conflict and disappointment, and core emotional patterns
🪴 Essential gifts of our mind, heart, and body that we have forgotten, and how we can open ourselves to remembering
🪴 Somatic experiences that support integration, allowing us to feel our way through healing rather than just understanding it intellectually

Whether you're brand new to the Enneagram or know your Type well, you will experience a deepening understanding and embodiment of all that it has to offer.

Visit the link in the comments more details. 🪴

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2245 Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
45206

Telephone

+15132160068

Website

http://www.galiacollaborative.com/

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