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Wise Self Wellness Compassionate, intuitive, creative, personalized, and effective counseling that empowers YOU. Serving adolescents, individuals, couples, and families.

I endeavor to speak from my wise self, counsel and connect with the wise self in others, and strengthen the wise self in all of us. May we all find the balance between interdependence and self-reliance.

I.e. SOCIAL CAPITAL It's our most valuable asset. I grew up with this value, with this knowing, and I am so grateful. It...
13/09/2025

I.e. SOCIAL CAPITAL

It's our most valuable asset. I grew up with this value, with this knowing, and I am so grateful. It is a knowing certainly held with the Indigenous people all around the world, and I think it's so strong in my community in large part because of the influence of Coast Salish People of these lands and waters. So to them I owe much gratitude and humility. As of late I've been practicing leaning even more into this truth. If we all treated each other as beloved family we would be in a much better place.

I am reminded and inspired as I read 📕 The Serviceberry by













I am acutely aware that now more than ever it is necessary to hope, dream, envision, and embody the world we want to liv...
12/09/2025

I am acutely aware that now more than ever it is necessary to hope, dream, envision, and embody the world we want to live in. Live into it. Love into it. FULLY LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
Our minds hold the magic. Our hearts hold the magic. Our bodies hold the magic. And when we come togther...watch out 🌟 May we never forget that we are POWERFUL.
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Life is messy and complicated and often heartbreaking but also often beautiful and always precious 💖 Two therapists (amo...
12/09/2025

Life is messy and complicated and often heartbreaking but also often beautiful and always precious 💖

Two therapists (among many I'm sure) have shared far more eloquently than I, and I encourage you to follow them and read/listen to their words on this subject (and beyond):
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When in doubt, even when we don't doubt...may we lean HARD into gratitude and curiosity to fuel our humility and compass...
26/08/2025

When in doubt, even when we don't doubt...may we lean HARD into gratitude and curiosity to fuel our humility and compassion.

As of late, this has been my core intention for my days, my active meditation. Every sweet moment, mundane moment, meal, shower, need met, news read, heart wrenched...I call upon gratitude and curiosity. I choose humility. I name my privileges with my gratitude. I get curious about other's lived experiences, what I'm missing, what I can stretch into, what I can do and offer, what I can expand into, who I can be inspired by. It's a practice, I'd like to think I'm getting better at it. Seems worthy 💫 I'm also pretty sure Fe is leaps and bounds ahead of me 🐶❤️

As a somatic psychotherapist, besides talking I do a lot of tending to people's bodies. Plus I'm just a mover by nature...
05/08/2025

As a somatic psychotherapist, besides talking I do a lot of tending to people's bodies. Plus I'm just a mover by nature. And I've been doing Pilates for about a decade and it's been a godsend. So I recently did a two-week training intensive (like intense intensive 😅) to be a mat Pilates instructor, and now I've started teaching classes as I work toward certification. I just want to help people to feel good, and Pilates does a really good job at that. Talk about being more embodied. And for whatever reason, so many people say they are intimidated by Pilates so they don't do it. That's a shame. I want all kinds of people to feel welcome and encouraged to do something that might be kinda hard but will also feel great. Like GREAT. Being stronger, more agile, easeful, sure-footed, confident, centered and relaxed is a good thing no matter what. It will help people keep doing the good work, putting up the good fight, regardless of what that is. We need to take care of ourselves and each other, now more than ever. We need to stand strong. We need to be brave. We also need to claim joy.

If you are in San Juan, I encourage you to come to the classes. You'll feel SO GOOD! Claim it! Commit to it!
👉🏽Added incentive: I'm giving the donations to Planned Parenthood. So it's a win-win!
👉🏽And PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
👉🏽You can also follow my Pilates page:

As I like to say: We gotta be strong and agile for the rEVOLution ❤️‍🔥

All I can say...WHEN YOU WANT TO CONTRACT...EXPAND Over and over again 💫I tell myself daily, and I'll share with you: Yo...
27/07/2025

All I can say...
WHEN YOU WANT TO CONTRACT...EXPAND Over and over again 💫

I tell myself daily, and I'll share with you: Your heart is not breaking, it's the necessary pain of expanding. It's the pain of being alive and ever growing. So it is sometimes.

I don't believe we owe the world our guilt, our misery, our self-flagellation. We are just tasked with staying alive and present and connected as best we can. So this also includes being present with blessings and joys. Humbly.

And so I will go pick raspberries that I will share, while listening to the birds and feeling sun on my face and soft grass under my bare feet...and will likely intermittently cry and smile as my mind swirls and floats. So it is sometimes.

WHY YES...I do continue to support basic human rights for all. Dignity, respect and autonomy for all. Life, liberty, and...
23/07/2025

WHY YES...I do continue to support basic human rights for all. Dignity, respect and autonomy for all. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all. Regardless of...well anything. And so yes I'll call things for what they are - even if it's uncomfortable - be it g3noc!de, gov-funded t3rror!sm, f@sc!sm, colonialism, r@cism, concentration camps, corrupt oligarchy. As a therapist (and incorrigibly curious human) I track a lot of things. I understand power dynamics. I understand patterns of abuse, control and manipulation. I understand mind traps and logical fallacies. I understand propaganda. I understand trauma patterns. I understand the human condition pretty darn well. And perhaps most importantly, I know my own heart. I'm not worried about being misunderstood ❤️No one is perfect, no one needs to be ✨🌈

And somehow along with the unabating discomforts of these times - the grief, rage, shock, fear, indignation, and uncerta...
09/07/2025

And somehow along with the unabating discomforts of these times - the grief, rage, shock, fear, indignation, and uncertainly - we weave vibrant, binding threads of pure pleasure - golden moments of laughter, joy, silliness, play, connection, gratitude, care, awe, tender love. It is not optional. It is foundational. It is necessary 💖

Like most of you, I've been struggling to process a LOT lately - taking in layers of the collective and the systemic, an...
22/06/2025

Like most of you, I've been struggling to process a LOT lately - taking in layers of the collective and the systemic, and then bringing it back to the personal. An image of those expanding breathing ball toys (image 2) has been coming to me for days. And then as I was choosing to share this, the expanding-contracting quality of a sea anemone also came to me. Does this make sense or resonate with you? It makes sense to my neurodivergent brain anyway 😜 Or perhaps this is just how some brains process a lot of complex information. Anyway, I'm certainly feeling this, and I imagine others can relate. And with my "trauma therapist" hat on, when thinking about how we process stress and release trauma, I know that this capacity to expand and contract, sometimes called somatic "pendulation", is key for healing. It's a skill worth strengthening, and one that's increasingly central to much of the work I do with people through Somatic Experiencing and Biodynamic Breathwork. We need as much dynamic flexibility in our brains, hearts and bodies as we can cultivate 💫💖

So this is happening!! Please help spread the word! It's gonna be great! 🌟 WHEN: Wed 8:30-9:30am starting in July WHERE:...
20/06/2025

So this is happening!! Please help spread the word! It's gonna be great! 🌟

WHEN: Wed 8:30-9:30am starting in July WHERE: Alchemy Art Center Dome
WHY: Gotta be strong and agile for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 ✊🏽

Some of you might know that I recently did an immersive and intensive Mat Pilates Instructor training. I've been practicing Pilates for about a decade and I can clearly say it saved my life. So it only seemed appropriate to eventually train to be able to share it with others. Plus it fits in so well with the somatic therapy work I have been focusing on. And I love moving my body ❤️

I've started a new IG page for my Uprising Pilates stuff, if you're interested in following along. We'll see how it unfolds together.
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This sentiment has never felt more true. It isn't just a concept, a nice notion. It's tangible and more true than we lik...
19/06/2025

This sentiment has never felt more true. It isn't just a concept, a nice notion. It's tangible and more true than we like to admit. And this absolutely ties into healthcare, in oh so many ways.

I've run across this quote quite a but never knew the source, or maybe just didn't pay attention. I own that.

"Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement". Wikipedia
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As a healthcare provider who talks with a LOT of people and reads a LOT of integrative health science and history I'd be...
18/06/2025

As a healthcare provider who talks with a LOT of people and reads a LOT of integrative health science and history I'd be remiss if I didn't highlight this.

"No kings" is great, but what about "No oligarchs"? It's a huge elephant in the room. The health and wellbeing of all people would be improved. We deserve so much better. And "so much better" is entirely possible with the abundant resources available.

If you look at the risk factors for mental health distress and dis-ease, they're ALL exacerbated by the existence and actions of the oligarchy that runs our country (and in large part the world).
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