Connectfulness

08/07/2025

On Tuesday, I'm hosting a virtual gathering and would love you to join. Just you and me and other sweet humans, gathering together in community, in real time, bringing what we’re carrying. Grief. Anger. Tenderness. Uncertainty. A desire to feel less alone.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF GRIEF
a virtual gathering to be with our grief, discomfort, and inner reckonings, together
🗓️ Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-8:30pm EST
📍 Zoom (link after registration)

Register for link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VhtE4rdrSqq9n67U06aEOA

08/01/2025

Over one million children are about to die from a man-made starvation in Gaza, and aid is just miles from the border. Join me in pausing all of your ads, promotions, and regularly scheduled content today, August 1st to make room for Gaza’s voices to be heard in this dire moment. Instead, post a picture of an empty bowl to show your solidarity. You can help us send an urgent message to national news by using bit.ly/gazaisstarving to urge networks to report on the one million children that are on the brink of death from forced starvation.
We won’t feed the algorithm while Gaza starves.

07/16/2025

I've been listening to their poetry and rereading through the many books of their poetry I have on on my night stand, my coffee table, on the book shelf behind me, and sitting next to me on my desk at the moment. Thinking about the fierce love they guided us toward. If you too are feeling the loss of this profound human I see you, if you haven't yet found their work, this is an invitation. In the end, may all our hearts be covered in stretch marks.

Andrea Gibson (8/13/1975 - 7/14/2025).
rest in peace and power

06/04/2025

My summer group is FULL but stay tuned for Autumn offerings!

We’re building community that experientially supports an exploration of the sticky patterns that emerge in our work so you increase self-trust and integrate resilience (for both you and your people), shift your relational presence in the room, feel more supported inside therapeutic challenges, welcome your therapist and human selves, and undo some of the aloneness we all experience inside our work.

My role is to guide you towards more ease and trust in your work. I’ll lean into principals from The STAIR Method to inform our process and support your work with trauma, weaving in neurobiology, and integrating experiential learning practices.

Our Summer 2025 cohort will meet via zoom on June 16th, July 21st, & Aug 11th from 2p-3:50p EST. We’re intentionally keeping our schedule lite for summer and will return in the fall with a fuller schedule.

06/03/2025

Dear WDMP Community,
What an incredible journey it’s been. We feel so lucky to have been in connection with you over the years as we’ve explored your burning Why Does My Partner… questions. With over 100 episodes across 7 seasons, this podcast has been a labor of love—and we could not have done it without your thoughtful engagement, deep curiosity, and ongoing support.
It’s with heavy hearts (and full ones) that we’ve decided to end production of the podcast. This decision wasn’t easy, and the reasons vary for each of us. Like many of you, we’re noticing the weight of the world, and our capacity is more limited than in the past. At the same time, we’re each growing in new directions, creating other kinds of learning and growth experiences for both therapists and laypeople alike. And because Why Does My Partner… has always thrived on the collective presence of all three of us, we agreed that if we can’t all say a wholehearted “yes” to continuing, it’s time to lovingly close this chapter.
We’re incredibly proud of the show we created, and we’re so grateful for the richness it’s brought to our lives. To ensure it remains a resource for you, all of our episodes will stay available on your favorite podcast platforms for years to come. Keep listening. Keep sharing. Let these conversations continue to spark insights and connection in your lives.
In our final episode, we offer some parting thoughts on how you can keep nurturing healthy relationships in your own world. Thank you for being with us—through every question, every laugh, every moment of truth. It’s been our joy and honor.
As our paths continue to unfold, we’d love to stay connected. If you’re curious about where each of us is headed next, come along by joining our individual mailing lists:
Jules: https://www.julianetaylorshore.com/the-newsletter
Vickey: https://unmessyourmind.com/
Rebecca: https://connectfulness.com/newsletter
With respect, wonder, kindness, and courage,

Rebecca, Jules, & Vickey

06/01/2025

Happy Pride!

05/29/2025

Colleagues, check out this upcoming training with Linda Thai:
https://nzps.gecco.co.nz/event-manager/ViewEvent/134

05/06/2025

We’re building community that experientially supports an exploration of the sticky patterns that emerge in our work so you increase self-trust and integrate resilience (for both you and your people), shift your relational presence in the room, feel more supported inside therapeutic challenges, welcome your therapist and human selves, and undo some of the aloneness we all experience inside our work.

My role is to guide you towards more ease and trust in your work. I’ll lean into principals from The STAIR Method to inform our process and support your work with trauma, weaving in neurobiology, and integrating experiential learning practices.

Our Summer 2025 cohort will meet via zoom on June 16th, July 21st, & Aug 11th from 2p-3:50p EST. We’re intentionally keeping our schedule lite for summer and will return in the fall with a fuller schedule.

05/02/2025

Bokie (a fellow certified STAIR Method therapist) will be hosting 3 decolonial consult groups for therapists starting this May!

05/01/2025

I listened to The Telepathy Tapes podcast a while back and am still processing. Supposing that consciousness is collective, it makes a lot of sense to me that telepathy might also be an inherent capacity that challenges our understanding of communication. It's invited me to wonder about collective consciousness as a sensory experience that embodies neurodiversity and relationality. What do you think?

04/25/2025

I'm a relational trauma therapist and educator. I help promote experiential learning brain states that conjure new possibilities, integrate felt sense knowings, deepen authenticity, increase trust, and develop practices to support generational wellness. I’ve been practicing as a psychotherapist since 2003, and I’ve been on my own healing journey even longer.

My journey into this work led me through indirect explorations of religion, philosophy, art, film and photography, wilderness survival, grief, sexuality, and my personal experience of understanding my own neurodivergence. I now recognize how it all weaves together rich with meaning, yet for a long time, I felt I was stumbling to find my way.

I’m a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Internal Family Systems and Intimacy From The Inside Out Therapist, Relational Life Therapist and Facilitator, Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapist, and am certified in The STAIR Method.

The STAIR Method helped me weave together these varied modalities and embody the concepts, applying them towards myself while working with my people. Jules' teachings around the 4-relationships: Power, Of-courseness, Not knowing, and Self (PONS) have helped better meet myself and my clients with trust, compassion and okayness, inside the trickiest of moments, both clinically and personally.

I am licensed as a clinical social worker in New York, Colorado, and Massachusetts and maintain a private therapy practice, host workshops and podcasts. I also offer consultation to professionals interested in incorporating experiential modalities and specialize in offering experiential relationship intensives to folks seeking profound relational shifts.

I reside in New York’s Hudson Valley on unceded Lenapehoking land with my partner, our teens, and a handful of four-legged furry mischief-makers. I’m a neurospicey nerd who enjoys getting lost in fantasy fiction worlds, hiking the Shawangunk Mountains, deep conversations, time with my teens, listening to trees, and starting projects...

04/25/2025