This day feels important!  It’s Easter and last night was a Full Moon in Libra (my favorite sign!)  Both carry the energy of rebirth after shedding the old outdated ways of being. I love to use stories and metaphors to illustrate the journey of our own lives. I believe that everything “out there” ...read more

Did you know spring is “anger season?” Yep.  Apparently according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the Spring is associated with the liver and the liver is associated with the emotion of anger.  Does that mean we feel more angry in the spring?  Well, kind of!  I mean, what did we just ...read more

One of the main methodologies I use to help people heal their trauma is called EMDR. I am trained in other mind-body trauma healing too but I’ll save those for another blog.  EMDR is my main squeeze, because it’s the most reliably effective for me in my practice.  I’m not saying it’s a magic bullet, ...read more

I’m talking specifically here about what I call “ordinary trauma.” It’s easy to see how severe trauma would mess up anyone’s life, but what about the more subtle trauma?  The common every day experiences that for one reason or another don’t get fully processed.  We don’t often even think of these ...read more

So if you’ve been reading my recent blogs, you know I’ve been kind of going back to the basics of trauma and explaining that trauma is not actually “something really bad” happening to you.  To paraphrase the founder of EMDR, the late Francine Shapiro Trauma is not the size of the event, it’s ...read more

So I don’t expect you to remember this or anything, but two weeks ago I went into detail explaining what trauma REALLY is.  If you missed it you can check it out by scrolling to the post before last called “What is Trauma Anyway?” To summarize, it’s not what you think it is!  Trauma isn’t just ...read more

What the heck?  Super Bowl and Valentines Day one day apart this year? And just a disclaimer:  this blog is about relationships cuz it’s Valentine’s Day.  I know that this holiday can be even tougher if you’re not actually in a romantic relationship right now, so if that’s you, maybe sit this one ...read more

Whew!  What a crazy year this has already been and it’s barely February!  I really thought this year was going to be better, didn’t you?  And then one shut down after another really brought things into perspective again.  One thing that I think we can all agree on is that the last 2 years have been ...read more

Doesn't that title sound EASY??  Well, I mean, I had to get your attention somehow, right?  It's hard to put the difficult journey of life into a title or even into a blog, but I still feel compelled to share this. This isn't about some simple process that will suddenly make all the changes you ...read more