Shana Moorefield, LCSW-C

02/24/2025

02/19/2025

Today would have been Audre Lorde’s birthday (February 18, 1935.) Her words ring as true now as they ever have.

01/21/2025

Here are a few of my favorite go-to self-care practices to nourish the nervous system. In just a few minutes you can facilitate a state of ease…at least that...

01/14/2025

At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books: To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
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County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

01/12/2025

The pause between the trigger and the response is where the healing happens. And this was sent to me by a former client of mine just today, and I thought it was really wonderful. So often clients, and she has a very good example, this is a client with DID, a long long history of anorexia, suicidality, self-harm. And so often, she and other clients have expressed this deep desire, “I don’t wanna be triggered. I’m tired of the triggering. If I work at this, can you tell me I won’t be triggered?” And I have to say triggering is part of life. Triggers don’t disappear from our lives, but we can learn how to relate to triggering differently. And so today, I’m going to teach you how to help clients put that pause in.

Now, I have found that it doesn’t help to ask them to pause between the trigger and the response, because they can’t do it and they feel that they failed, or they’re angry at me for asking of them something they can’t do. And so we’re going to in such a way that that pause has to happen. It has to become more and more familiar to the client.

11/06/2024

Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.

But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it’s a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can’t save everything all at once, but it’s still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.

And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.

10/22/2024

10/07/2024

Despite how others make it look on the outside, carrying grief is incredibly hard. Although someone may look like they are coping well amidst the grief, inside they could be buckling under the weight of that grief. It’s important for us to remember that people may be dealing with heavy emotions and internal struggles behind a composed facade.

10/02/2024

09/25/2024

Talking to young children about emergencies can be hard. This , consider these tips and find more resources at https://m.sesame.org/emergencyfb

09/18/2024

245.5K likes, 5506 comments. “Have you ever noticed? . . . . . . . The people who isolate themselves when overwhelmed are often the ones who had to solve problems alone as children? 😟 These individuals didn’t just “grow up.” They survived. They fought battles in their formative years that...