Stay Open: Spiritual and Self-Care Space

10/19/2016

Therapeutic Doodling 🐞

Doodling for Therapy and Therapists is for all people who use therapeutic techniques in life and work. Texas Social Workers get 2 hours of CEUs. Everyone gets to relax and create. No skill or art education necessary.

12/12/2015

Here's the newsletter announcement for the 365 Days of Doodling book. In it, you'll find links to purchase and some words of gratitude. Click this link and subscribe for future Doodle Outreach updates. They are fun and friendly!

07/04/2015

Peace be with you!

05/01/2015

Yay yay, back again this Sunday. On these calls, I es**rt us all to this openness and its safety, freedom and comfort. Join us!

https://trustrest.wordpress.com/rest-room-facilitated-rest-calls/

A community with whom to rest is a great benefit and support in trusting rest. Join us each week for The REST Room, a facilitated call (using Skype) where we sit back on the sofa of life and gently...

01/16/2015

Are you open to spontaneity?

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/01/15/the-way-of-spontaneity-dao-tao

The art and power of spontaneity, in ancient philosophy, in jazz, in everyday life. We'll look at "Trying Not To Try," the Chinese concept of "Wu-wei", and the completely focused mental state of "flow."

12/23/2014

Staying open to the moment means no matter how you're feeling or how many or what kinds of thoughts you're having. Making room for being exactly as we are. Resting through the changes. Holiday blessings and comfort, whatever the state of the moment.

12/17/2014

Everything is a miracle.

http://trustrest.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/its-a-miracle/

In the bagel shop this morning, I was standing around smiling, waiting for my breakfast. While there, I tuned into miraculousness, something I've been playing with the last few days and nights. As ...

12/17/2014

Here's something you might be interested in. A different approach to dealing with what's really wrong with us. Maybe there's nothing to be done, anyway but to rest and gently have a look. You don't have to be on your own with such things. Let's look together.

http://www.thetherapybooth.com/whats-really-wrong-with-you-a-living-inquiries-mini-course/

Where you are certain that you’re really fu***ng up? Things about you that make you unlovable, unlikeable, unworthy of goodness and freedom, perhaps . . .

11/15/2014

Resting.

http://trustrest.wordpress.com/

(by the therapy booth)

10/27/2014

Take rest.

http://trustrest.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/keep-breathing/

I saw this wonderful post by Project Happiness on Facebook: My soul is not feeling tired just this moment, but I have had some great weariness of late. That inquiry session I had yesterday really h...

10/14/2014

http://trustrest.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/resting-is-not-escaping/

. . . although I am about to lie down . . . but that's not escaping either. This morning I was standing in the kitchen getting ready to go to my acupuncture appointment, and I noticed I was feeling...