Intimacy Perspectives

03/27/2026

🔔 A gentle final reminder.

This Sunday we’ll gather for Breathing Thru Grief — a small, intentional workshop to slow down, breathe, and meet what you’ve been carrying.

This is a space for presence, not performance.
For support, not advice.
For grief to be held with care.

Registration will be closing soon to preserve the intimacy of the group.

If this has been quietly on your mind, you can trust that.

📅 Sunday, March 29 | 12–4 PM
📍 San Leandro, CA

We would be honored to hold this space with you.

🔔 Register here: https://www.breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

03/20/2026

Grief doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like “I’m fine.”
Sometimes it looks like moving through the day without much room to pause.
Sometimes it lives quietly, without having had a place to be spoken or shared.

We don’t always have spaces where grief can land.

Breathing Through Grief is a small, in-person workshop created with that in mind — a place to slow down, breathe, and gently turn toward what has been carried, often without enough support or attention.

Through breath, somatic awareness, and shared presence, we create a space where you can feel, notice, and be witnessed with care.

There is no need to justify what you feel, or to compare it to anything else. Only an invitation to come as you are.

Sunday, March 29 | 12–4 PM
San Leandro, CA

Registration: https://www.breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

03/13/2026

🔔 A gentle reminder:

Early bird pricing for Breathing Thru Grief ends today.

If this space has been calling you, this may be the moment to respond.

This workshop is a small, intentional circle — a place to slow down, listen to your body, and meet grief with care. No fixing. No performance. Just presence, breath, and witness.

🕊️ Early Bird: $100
Use code "EARLYBIRD"

🏷️ Regular Price: $120 starting tomorrow

📅 Sunday, March 29th, 12-4pm
📍 San Leandro, CA

We’ll hold this space together. You don’t have to do it alone.

👉🏼 Register here: breakthruwellnesscoaching.com/breathing-thru-grief

03/05/2026

There are bears on the path. 🐻

That’s what a Native American woman said at my social work graduation in 1983 — and it has stayed with me ever since.

The older I get, the more I see how true it is.

There are bears in our nervous systems. Bears in the headlines. Bears in our personal lives. Grief. Heartbreak. Collective strain.

The question isn’t how to get rid of the bears.
It’s how we bear them.

I’ve come to believe we do that together. We go into the woods with someone we trust. We stand at the river — of grief, of strength, of shared wisdom — and we allow ourselves to see and be seen. Collective presence makes the weight more possible to carry.

💬 Who walks with you when you meet the bears on your path?

03/03/2026

Grief doesn’t need fixing.

It needs space. 💗

Breathing Thru Grief is a 4-hour, in-person workshop where grief and grace are both welcome.

Together with Teresa , we are creating a thoughtful, held container for Bay Area friends who want to slow down, breathe, and be present with what loss has carried into their lives.

No pressure to share. No expectation to be “strong.”
Just breath, presence, movement and care.

Just breath. Presence. Gentle movement. Careful attention to what is living inside and between us.

📅 Sunday, March 29
📍 San Leandro, California

🕊️ Early bird pricing is available.

If this speaks to you, you are warmly invited to join us (link in bio).

02/20/2026

Grace is essential.

Not as an idea. Not as something we earn. But as something we practice.

I speak about grace as a verb — alive, moving, loyal, kind. Something even deeper than forgiveness. A force that brings light into heavy places. ✨

Mary Oliver writes:
“Love moves away the light changes. I need more grace than I thought”.

We are living in a time of personal, collective, and generational loss. Many of us feel the weight of moral injury — a deep ache when the values we hold most dear are violated. 🙏🏼

Grace is our inherent capacity to meet heartache with tenderness. To bring compassion to grief. To steady ourselves, and one another, in the midst of so much pain.

When we bring grace to our losses, we create the conditions to be well in this world — together.

💬 Where are you being invited to practice grace right now?

02/18/2026

Moral injuries happen when our deepest values are assaulted.

This morning, a small moment with my dog reminded me how deeply our values shape our lives. Even tiny slights — or oversights — can touch our moral compass. 🧭

As humans, we’re wired to care. Our values define our sense of self and guide our relationships. But moral injuries, whether big or small, happen all the time — in systems, in families, and in our closest connections.

The key is having a strong “values GPS” — continuously refining your moral compass and aligning your actions with what truly matters. Relationships, integrity, and connection are the practice fields for living this alignment every day.

💬 How do you stay aligned with your core values, even in tricky situations?

02/16/2026

I’ve been a clinical social worker and psychotherapist since 1983…

Over 40 years of guiding meaningful conversations and witnessing incredible growth in my clients. 🙏🏼

One of my long-term clients recently completed her journey with me, and it was a beautiful reminder of why I do this work. Seeing someone evolve, feel complete, and step into their own life is profoundly rewarding.

It’s moments like these that make every session meaningful and fulfilling.

💬 Have you ever had someone in your life whose growth deeply inspired you?

02/12/2026

Beneath our personal and collective heartbreaks lives longing: for meaning, for connection, for belonging, for grace, for relational witnessing that soothes our souls.

Grief & Grace: Loss, Longing and Belonging is a seven-week collective journey beginning on February 19th in San Leandro!

G and G invites participants to meet both bring light into the heavy and dark places that move among us— in a a compassionate, village-like space to witness and be witnessed.

Together we learn to engage with tenderness, transparency and kindness—to shift from isolation to connection, from numbness to aliveness, from despair to meaning.

Register here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grief-grace-loss-longing-and-belonging-7-week-event-series-tickets-1980642483987?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp

Each weekly gathering is guided by Michael Gelbart, a highly experienced therapist and leader, and by guest facilitators, weaving together structured practices of somatic, soulful attunement, dialogue, writing, ritual, and shared presence.

Join us,

michael g

www.shiftinperspective.com

Create a more meaningful & soulful life with integrative intimacy & holistic psychotherapy - Michael Gelbart, Holistic Couples Therapist.

02/11/2026

Last Thursday, we gathered for the Grief & Grace Introductory Evening.

Ten people came together in shared presence — listening deeply, honoring different kinds of loss, and allowing what matters to be placed into the space with care. There were stories, photographs, quiet moments, and an altar shaped collectively by what people brought.

What stood out most was the pace. Less filling the space. More allowing. Grace as patience. Grace as presence. Grace as something we practice together.

The full Grief & Grace seven-week series begins on Febraury 19th in San Leandro, offering a steady, relational space to continue this work of listening, witnessing, and being with grief in community.

If this resonates, you’re welcome to join us.

👉🏼 Details and registration: www.griefandgrace.eventbrite.com

02/05/2026

Reminder! 🔔

🕯️ Tonight at 7pm we gather for Grief & Grace — Introductory Evening.

If you’re carrying something heavy, tender, or unnamed, you’re welcome here. This is a space to slow down, be witnessed, and share presence with others navigating personal, generational, and collective grief.

📅 7pm, Thursday February 5th
333 Estudillo Ave, Suite #206
📍 San Leandro, CA

There’s still few spaces left — come as you are.

👉🏼 Register / details: www.griefandgrace-intro.eventbrite.com

02/04/2026

Grief & Grace is a seven-week, in-person series in San Leandro, CA, created to offer presence, witnessing, and ways to express how these times are being lived and felt.

We begin with an introductory evening tomorrow, February 5th, followed by the full seven-week series starting February 19th.

If you feel called to attune with others, practice presence, and be supported in community, you’re warmly welcome to join us.

👉🏼 Register for the introductory evening: www.griefandgrace-intro.eventbrite.com