Groupworks Ilene English, MFT

03/10/2024

I am back!! My FB page was taken down for unknown reasons, but has been restored.

08/20/2023

I love this!

09/27/2022

https://www.facebook.com/littlepinelearners/photos/a.399052120473074/1224560751255536

09/19/2022

Hippie Chick audiobook being offered free on Amazon!

It is 1963, and we are brought along as Ilene becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psychedelics, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll. A deeply personal story of one young woman’s journey.

08/09/2022

08/02/2022

Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another - they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives - they have another path and purpose to walk first. Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality. Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love's leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment. But this is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don't - they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is no easy path - readiness is everything. May we grieve loss without personalizing it. May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover.

~ Jeff Brown Facebook.com/SOULSHAPING
Artwork by Ferdinand Hodler

08/25/2021

Isn’t it time to become your own biggest cheerleader and kick the internal bully to the curb? Stop stopping yourself.
We all have quirks and peccadilloes they are the fabric of who we are.
The experiences you have had, led you to where you are today and have taught you what you need to know so trust yourself.
The challenges you have overcome have built your strength and shown you that you can endure hard things so use that tenacity and strength and focus on what you do want stop ruminating on what you don’t.
The past is over stop beating yourself up for what has been and start focusing on what you want to become and what you want to change.
Trust yourself, validate yourself, accept and recognize and celebrate how far you have come. Take what you need and leave the rest behind and meet yourself exactly where you are because that is exactly where you need to be.
What would happen if just for this week you accept the challenge of accepting yourself and approving of who you are? What if you stopped the negative internal dialogue and BS (blame and shame) and replaced it will encouragement,, acceptance, support, curiosity and love.