Psychotherapy Practice

06/04/2022

Six research-backed moves to improve your mood

01/02/2022

04/22/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html?smid=em-share

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

01/24/2021

Being present is a direct connection to freedom!

12/20/2020

Why You’re Still Tired: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith on the 7 Types of Rest We All Need by STACEY LINDSAY It’s climbing Mount Everest and finding Utopia rolled into one: the idea that we can feel fully awake and vibrant throughout the day. It may sound like a fallacy that we’ve been chasing with e...

10/21/2020

I wish I could rent out billboards on every highway in the world and share this message… But all I can do for today is make a little meme of it, on a photo that I took this morning during a foggy walk in the woods. I just wanted to take a moment today to let you know: You are ALL so much more than you think you are. What you actually are is divine. Nothing less than divine. I love you all, and I believe in you. ❤️LG

10/17/2020

so true

Funny, but true. The connection between body, mind, spirit is real.

10/10/2020

Beautiful invitation to be with difficult emotion.

It's okay to be sad, to feel a bit shaky and uncertain, melancholic, to lament, and to grieve.

Despite a collective disembodiment to the blue shades of the spectrum, these states are not evidence that something is wrong with you, that you have failed, that you need to meditate more or pray harder. Or that you need to become better at staying in the present moment, manifest the opposite of sadness, or transcend it by way of some process.

It is high-voltage evidence that you are alive, with a tender beating heart, subtle and perceptive mirror neurons, and senses that are open to the full-spectrum, chaotic glory of being a human being who is alive at this time.

Just in this one moment, be sad. Fully. Not partially. Go inside the sadness. Find the sad one there. Speak with her, listen to him, feel what she is feeling, see what he is seeing. Turn your body into a vessel, a temple where the lost orphans of psyche and soma can come to share their art, and rest.

Get close to the sad one, but not so close that you become flooded. Intimacy without fusion. Relationship without merging, honoring your own integrity, interiority, and perspective. Offer sanctuary and safe passage for the shattered pieces to unfold, illuminate, and reorganize.

Sadness and melancholy are not things you need to fix, cure, or transcend. They are arising at this moment not to be healed, but to be held. You need not shift sadness into some “higher” state or apply teachings so that it will yield into something else. For it is complete and pure on its own, as a unique messenger of the personal, cultural, and archetypal soul.

With the fire of awareness and the ally of your breath, descend into your belly, travel inside your heart, open a portal into your throat, your imagination, and the life force which is reverberating within you. Tend to the raw, shaky life that is longing to be held. And listen.

It is by way of this journey that sadness will be revealed to be what it is, a secret wisdom-guide and bridge into the universal heart, a messenger of power, mercy, and fierce compassion that wants you as its midwife.

Photo by Ricco Stange

10/10/2020

Enough Light
By John Mark Green

No matter how dark
your night, my friend,
may you always find
enough light
to take the next step.