Elaine M Hamilton LMFT

Elaine M Hamilton LMFT Therapist, Podcaster, Retreats, Workshops in San Diego, Portland, OR and Orcas Island.

At The Soul Care House, you’ll find a community of marriage and family therapists equipped to journey with you toward improved relationships, healing and wholeness. In addition to professional therapy, we offer workshops and events designed to create personal growth and nurture your soul within an accepting, authentic environment. We are excited as this dream comes to life everyday.

{ Be sure to check out the site: www.soulcarehouse.com & connect with us here regularly! }

Hi Friends. I’m settled back in San Diego and it’s so good to be home! I’ve heard some are wondering if I’m still seeing...
11/07/2024

Hi Friends. I’m settled back in San Diego and it’s so good to be home! I’ve heard some are wondering if I’m still seeing clients so just wanted to say a big YES, I’m here and ready to get back to work! I’ve missed you all!

Mission accomplished. We moved the pile of babies across the country (their parents came too), stripped wallpaper, paint...
08/01/2023

Mission accomplished. We moved the pile of babies across the country (their parents came too), stripped wallpaper, painted rooms and played lots of toddler games. I am beyond grateful for these two girlfriends who flew to Portland, to fly to Ohio with us, entertained babies like it was their job, and worked tirelessly to make an old house feel like home for my daughter’s family. They reminded me that while they don’t have their own grandbabies yet, what’s mine is theirs. Endless thanks to the “Traveling Grandmas”. You saved our bacon!!
Next task - move myself back to San Diego! There have been endless twists and turns in the last four years but now it’s time to come home. I can’t quite believe it.

GIVEAWAY!!! This month, we’re giving away a copy of our video workshop, Lost in Grief. This workshop includes three hou...
06/24/2022

GIVEAWAY!!! This month, we’re giving away a copy of our video workshop, Lost in Grief. This workshop includes three hours of teaching, an inventory to help you identify your primary and secondary trauma responses, strategies to help you regulate, and downloadable pdfs with space for notes and reflections

Here’s how to enter:
+ Like this post
+ Follow on IG
+ Follow Leeanatankersley on IG
+ Follow Elainemhamilton on IG
+ tag a friend who has been with you in seasons of grief, large or small

That’s it! These giveaways are just our way of saying thank you and keep going and we believe in you, so watch for more in the future.

The giveaway closes THIS SUNDAY, June 26th, at 9pm PT // Midnight ET, so be sure to submit your entry by then. For bonus entries, comment on this post and tag three additional friends.

The winner will be announced Monday, June 27th. Good luck!

I’ve been working on a meditative walk-in-the-woods video and it’s ready!! During our Orcas retreat, and I take our par...
06/23/2022

I’ve been working on a meditative walk-in-the-woods video and it’s ready!! During our Orcas retreat, and I take our participants up into the woods, with stops along the way to share readings and journal. It’s always a favorite part of the weekend so we’ve recreated it for everyone. This video takes you on a virtual walk in the woods with scenes from Orcas, reading and invitations to breathe and write along the way. It’s our way of taking you with us and we hope that it will invite you to breathe, ponder and reconnect with yourself. You can purchase it over on our website, www.thefindingyouproject.com.

I’ve been watching Brene Brown’s “Altas of the Heart” series, about creating clearer language for our emotions and exper...
04/28/2022

I’ve been watching Brene Brown’s “Altas of the Heart” series, about creating clearer language for our emotions and experiences. For example, “awe” which she describes as responding to an experience with the desire to just take it in, to watch something without trying to figure it out, to stand back and let it shine. I felt that today under these trees and appreciated the invitation to notice

Years ago I came across a quote about letting go of being well behaved and instead aiming for being “valiant, vulnerable...
04/22/2022

Years ago I came across a quote about letting go of being well behaved and instead aiming for being “valiant, vulnerable and scandalous”. I was particularly drawn to the word scandalous because I had focused so much of my life to that point, on being a good girl, dependable, reliable and responsible. Since then I’ve tried to be less so. Instead I’ve attempted to be bolder, more open, fearless, gutsy and sometimes improper. It’s amazing how much more interesting life is gets when you let go of following rules that don’t serve you.

Which word reasonates with you? Tell me about it.

These two. Inseparable in uterine and in life. My gorgeous grandbabies are 3 today. I can’t get enough of them.
04/08/2022

These two. Inseparable in uterine and in life. My gorgeous grandbabies are 3 today. I can’t get enough of them.

I did it!! I let of 33 books! (Still 12 boxes in the basement but that’s a problem for another day. Yesterday I asked fo...
03/16/2022

I did it!! I let of 33 books! (Still 12 boxes in the basement but that’s a problem for another day. Yesterday I asked for tips when trying to let go of books and you all delivered!! Here’s a sampling in case you need them:
1. Hold the book and it tell you if it needs to stay or go, Marie Kondo style. Bless and release.
2. Consider if the book has already served its purpose in your life and now could be helpful to someone else.
3. Is there a friend who could use it? Write a note to them and pass it on.
4. Keep all the books and build a reading fort. (Less helpful but a really great idea!)
5. If you saw it in a store right now, would you buy it? (That one helped alot!)
6. If you miss it, remember libraries and bookstores are still there.
I thank you for your help with my purging efforts.

I have cried on almost every flight I’ve been on in the last 3 years. Yesterday, as I flew back to San Diego to finish p...
03/04/2022

I have cried on almost every flight I’ve been on in the last 3 years. Yesterday, as I flew back to San Diego to finish packing up my house, the man across the aisle from me was crying too. Not sobbing, but quietly sniffling, holding his head and texting, like he’d just received some bad news. And while I have no idea what he’s going through, I am will him. I feel his sadness.
This is the thing. When we are going through it, it can feel like we are all alone, like we are the only ones experiencing this kind of pain. But then these reminders show up, that this is life, this is what it’s like to be human. Whatever we are going through, we are not alone. Others are facing it too.

Yesterday I got very anxious in the grocery store while looking for vegetables. Weird, cause I don’t have a vegetable ph...
03/01/2022

Yesterday I got very anxious in the grocery store while looking for vegetables. Weird, cause I don’t have a vegetable phobia. So something else must be going on. In my case, that usually means that I have not kept up with amount of grief and disorientation my body is still carrying. And while I am pretty good at recognizing and attending to my feelings, I very often miss or ignore what’s going on in my body. So I tried to listen to it and take care of it. I went for a drive and looked at pretty things and took myself out to a lovely meal and had a long soak in the tub. Much better today.

Yesterday I got very anxious while walking around the grocery store looking for vegetables. Weird, since I do not have a...
03/01/2022

Yesterday I got very anxious while walking around the grocery store looking for vegetables. Weird, since I do not have a produce phobia, so clearly something else is going on. For me, these moments often mean that I’m not paying enough attention to the grief and disorientation my body is still carrying. While I’m pretty good at noticing my emotions, I regularly miss or ignore what happening in my body. So I did a few things for for it. I drove around and looked at pretty things, I took myself out for a lovely meal and I soaked in a hot tub. Much better.

This last week has been A LOT of business! I’m in San Diego, finalizing the sale of my home 😭and packing up all the thin...
02/10/2022

This last week has been A LOT of business! I’m in San Diego, finalizing the sale of my home 😭and packing up all the things we’ve collected over the last 25 years! 🤪I am both overwhelmed and grateful. Overwhelmed by the enormity of the stuff, for sure, but mostly by how much I have loved and been held by this house. It’s where a million amazing, nourishing, hilarious, tender moments have happened and letting go of it is surreal. But I don’t live here any more. Neither does Ken or my kids and this house has become far too quiet and lonely over the last two years, so it’s time. But I am incredibly grateful because its new owners are dear friends, who are like family to me. They will breathe new life into this place and fill it with kids and diving competitions and late night hide and seek. And in a remarkable generous turn of events, they have offer me a place to stay whenever I am in San Diego so I can have a front row seat to the magic they will bring here. the new life they will bring to this place. magic that they will bring to this place. How lucky am I!!

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