01/22/2026
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White water rafting
is easier with practice.
Marathons are doable
with training.
The Olympics would be
inconceivable, even deadly,
without an investment
of huge amount amounts of focus.
Sessions with
post-traumatic humans,
with security systems
with ongoing “impossible” dynamics
can feel like this,
and pull from the deepest depths
of practitioners...
This can be so depleting,
even re-traumatizing,
Recapitulating early relational fields
and leaving practitioners
empty and symptomatic.
Or at the least,
confused about
why people around them
receive gold,
and they feel like lead inside.
It’s so beautiful to watch practitioners in the Alchemical Alignment training
go through the curriculum
and turn into people
who are proud of themselves
and the way
they are handling sessions.
(And life.)
Such an honor.
The picture is from Montana,
where the next in person training
will happen — a rarity in this day
of finding one’s tribe
around the planet on zoom
(which is also fabulous).
Getting together with people
(the teaching team)
with decades of having refined
touch and attention skills
is such a gift, as well. 💙