Healing Work - Tracy Cordner

10/23/2025

Have you heard the phrases “waking up” and “growing up” with regard to personal/spiritual development? Here’s how I think of these things:

Waking up is the insight that there is more to life than you knew. Sometimes it’s spiritual: you have an unexplainable awakening — for a moment, everything is made of love. Maybe you discover your life’s purpose, or you have an experience of knowing deep in your bones that life doesn’t stop when you die.

Waking up can also be a kind of rude awakening, for example suddenly seeing that your life is not your own – that you’ve been living for other people, you’re not fulfilled, nor do you know anything about how to be fulfilled.

Waking up is a flash of insight, a sudden knowing, a bones-deep taste of what’s really really true for you.

So what’s growing up? Well, it’s the much harder part. Growing up is the practice needed to integrate your awakening. For example, if you wake up one morning and realize you’ve been living for others, growing up will mean learning what living for YOU looks like and then making real strides to do that. Growing up is heeding your wake-up call, not dismissing it just because no one else agrees or sees what you see. Growing up is HARD and it doesn’t happen on its own.

You can think of waking up as a taste of your potential, and growing up as the grit and grunt of birthing it.

In Healing Work, we do both. By exploring what’s true for you, sometimes we bump into great awakenings, but most of the time we explore all of the thoughts and ideas and barriers to knowing and living what’s really really true. It takes time, sincerity, and a certain kind of maturity to bother, since it’s definitely not the easy way. This is why I call it Healing Work, not Healing Fun! But even though it’s work, growing up satisfies like nothing else.

10/20/2025

Upcoming Happenings 🎃 :

1. Oct 27, 6pm at JPH: Honoring Grief: Untangling the Many Emotions. This event is FULL but you can still get on the waitlist: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-grief-tickets-1665522114479
2. Nov 24, 6pm - Honoring Grief Part 2: Permission to Feel. There are still tickets available for this one! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-grief-tickets-1782859303169
3. Oct 24, 6pm at Hingham Community Center: Opening the Gifts of Presence: The Joy of Curiosity - Introduction to the Diamond Approach Path of Inner Work. Plenty of room now that we are meeting at HHC's beautiful ballroom! Reserve your spot (for free) and bring a friend: https://tracycordner.com/events/diamond-approach-curiosity
4. Session availability: I have availability on some Thursdays and Fridays. Text me if you want a spot!

Join us for a transformative grief program designed to help navigate and recognize that honoring our emotions allows us to heal.

10/14/2025

A few magical things about last night's community meditation:

🔮 Despite a forceful nor'easter making driving difficult, we had a FULL HOUSE!
🔮 JPH Organization was still decorated from their epic Wolf Dinner, so the space was dazzling (see photo)
🔮 As always, the magic is in the connection. Your openness + my offering = powerful potion. We all go home feeling settled, grounded, rinsed clean, and ready for what's next.

Grateful! 🙏

10/13/2025

TONIGHT 7pm: Resting in Being - Community Meditation at JPH Organization
No registration needed, just show up: 76 Ferry Hill Rd, Marshfield
Leave the rainstorm outside and cozy up with your Being! 💝

10/10/2025

Coming up Oct 24th: Follow-on workshop introducing the Diamond Approach spiritual path. This has been my path for many years and has very much inspired the work I do. Those who attended the last one know that it was a tight squeeze in my waiting room! Well, this time we will be meeting at the Hingham Community Center so please: come one, come all, and bring your spiritually oriented friends!

As before, there is no cost for the event, no experience necessary, and no worries if you've never attended an earlier event. We will do meditation, teaching, exercises and discussion. More info and signup 👇

In this free introductory workshop to the Diamond Approach, we will explore curiosity. The Diamond Approach® is a contemporary spiritual path whose teachings are grounded in ancient spiritual wisdom and contemporary psychological theory.

10/06/2025

Did anyone else enjoy the return to summer this weekend? This photo is from last night.

I have some goodies coming up this month and I'd love for you to come! They are:

1. Oct 13, 7pm - Community Meditation at JPH Organization Title: Resting in Being. Zone out with soft, soothing music and let me guide you into a very deep form of rest. No need to register, just show up!
2. Oct 27, 6pm - Honoring Grief at JPH. Learn why grief needs a VIP pass to your inner world. Share with others and work with me to contact your grief more directly. Tickets are FREE but they are almost gone! Get yours: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-grief-tickets-1665522114479

I'm also thrilled to return to Gracious Bay Counseling this month to lead another professional development workshop. Reach out if you want to arrange something similar for your group. I work with healing/helping professionals and I can teach on a variety of topics.

09/24/2025

Changing up the fruit water! Introducing strawberry lime - a squeeze of fresh lime and a frozen strawberry or two in ice water. It's getting rave reviews!

The fruit water is fun but purposeful - Healing Work is mysteriously dehydrating.

Come try it out!

09/15/2025

It's hard to believe it's mid-September! Four years ago, around now, I posted a signup sheet at Circle of Life offering free 30 minute healing sessions, and I was as nervous as I was excited when a bunch of people signed up right away. That was the start!

Today, when I walk into my cozy office, I greet it like it's my favorite person. "Hi! Hi! It's so nice to see you again."

Happy birthday to Healing Work 🎈 💝

09/10/2025

We've all gotten the question, “What do you do?” which really asks, “How do you make money?” or “What is your role in society?”

To me, this question gets at your JOB. The thing you do. This JOB may or may not have anything to do with your WORK.

I’m using the word WORK here in a way that some people might use the word "purpose", or "way you find meaning".

For example, prior to my career in healing, I was a training specialist: I designed educational experiences for all kinds of people, on all kinds of topics, all over the world. During each training I’d become a mini expert on the material and help deliver that material to whatever audience. That was my job. But it didn’t matter where I was or what I was teaching, I’d find myself engaged in quiet conversations with people — colleagues, attendees, staff — on topics related to healing and trauma. I learned a lot about people this way, not because I was being paid to, not because it was my job, but because it was my WORK. At the time I was actively healing my own story and was turning over in my head the many nuances of healing: why does it happen, how does it happen, what can help it happen, what stops it from happening?

Today my work and my job are the same thing. This is not an accident: once I saw clearly what my work was, I was able to craft a job from it.

But your JOB and your WORK do not have to be the same thing, and usually aren’t. It can be helpful to distinguish the two: What is your job, and what is your work? What is the YOUness working while you’re at your job? How do you carry forward your interests, passions, personal learning in the context of this job? How much room in your JOB is there for your WORK?

08/29/2025

This long weekend I am wishing you the kind of deep rest that Buttercup is enjoying.

08/27/2025

Ah, it's back to school time! It was the first day for one of my teenagers. Waking up before the sun is not exciting, but routine feels supportive and cozy.

Sunset photo from last weekend for all of the other summer hounds out there! It's not over yet!

08/22/2025

Trying a new format for my content - video animation! I will not tell you how long it took me to make this, but I will tell you that I learned a lot and I'm excited about what is possible!

Music by AudioCoffee: https://www.audiocoffee.net/