Cashion Creative Counseling

10/14/2025

10/13/2025

New blog post about Internal Family Systems book You Are the One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) or "parts" work is one of the newest trends in therapy work. Like most popular, new ideas, the modality promises to yield results towards healing and assist individuals in acting from their highest Self. IFS is the brainchild of Dick Schwartz who took the theory of Fami...

09/22/2025

A LITTLE THROWBACK!

This was our most-loved post exactly two years ago today – and it’s still just as true now as it was then

09/13/2025

08/04/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/freedom-and-acceptance

The one where I unpack my need to understand and how it gets in my way of acceptance and freedom.

One of my favorite Beyonce songs is Freedom featuring Kendrick Lamar. Its a powerful, upbeat song that I have used in many a dark day to motivate me to work towards my own 'freedom.'While I have led a privileged and lucky life with many freedoms, I have experienced the trauma and abuse that comes wi...

07/01/2025

New blog post reflecting on an excellent lesson in boundaries.

In this picture, it doesn't look like much is happening. Two handsome horses, standing across a gate in the morning sun. The story behind this picture is one of youngsters making mistakes, bonds forming over short hours but important choices, and the education that one being gives to another. And my...

06/10/2025

"We do metta, we learn metta, we teach metta, we live through metta. But the piece that elevates metta to the terrain of connection with each other, the universe, nature, so that we are not separate from any of it, is compassion.

If one connects into the compassionate heart, it’s going to, at times, bring one to a place where you have to be present with personal suffering and the suffering in the world. And that can be a place that oftentimes is so difficult that we find all these ways to turn away from it. The only way we can actually meet each other and meet the world and what’s happening is by strengthening the heart." —DaRa Williams

06/05/2025

New blog post about breaking and breakthroughs.

Do we get a choice? How do we turn our breaking moments, our broken feelings, into a life changing or life-affirming breakthrough? Is this something in our power to do or, like a bull lead by a ring in the nose, are we powerless in life's clutches? In the oppressive systems that steer the ship we li...

05/19/2025

New blog post about grief, how bad we are at it and how important it is to feel it, especially right now.

We humans are terrible at grief. For beings who cause so much destruction, we suck at mourning loss. We have whole industries based on avoiding aging. We create stories about immortality. So many people believe in an afterlife where everything is magically perfect (and boring if you watched The Good...

04/21/2025

https://www.cashioncreativecounseling.com/post/radically-imagining-a-better-world

New blog post about grieving the world we have been living in, thought we were living in, and imagining what our world could be. Sharing a few thoughts and an interview with adrienne maree brown and Krista Tippet.

It is hard to find hope right now, as I have reflected before. Because of the oppressive systems that rule our society, the world is on fire, both literally and metaphorically. People are feeling scared, hurt, and helpless. And yet...This system didn't start being harmful in 2025, 2024, 2016. 2008,1...

04/08/2025

New blog post on the uncomfortable feeling of growth and healing.

I don't like being uncomfortable. I know. Understatement, who wouldn't agree. Many of us who come from the privilege of being housed, clothed, fed are used to having our needs met and then some. We're used to all the subscription services, many without commercials. We're used to buying what we need....