Well, this Tuesday marks the official end of summer for me and my one last remaining kid.  It’s the beginning of school.  Where the heck did SUMMER GO??  Didn’t it just start??  Why is it that the older we get the faster time spins out of control and leaves us smacking our foreheads going “How did I ...read more

When my binge watching cooking shows turns into a blog worthy post.  Stay with me on this. As we go into “back to school mode” we’ve got all the feels.  Either you are dealing with your kids getting one year older which means one year closer to their leaving home, OR you are already there and ...read more

Being a parent is so satisfying and hard at the same time. It bares your soul to so many new emotions and feelings. This week I am in the throws of LONELINESS! 😔 I dropped my son off at the airport for an 8-day visit with a friend. Let’s not talk about it being his first flight alone, or the ...read more

What would you say if I told you being bored is a skill you could develop?  Hear me out! Last weekend I was in the enviable position of having the whole house to myself for the entire weekend.  Yes, you read that right.  A WHOLE weekend to MYSELF!! I’m sure your first reaction is, “Wow, ...read more

I fell deeply in love with Canada.  In fact, I’d say that whole trip put a new spark in my life.  It’s amazing how traveling can inspire you, open your eyes to new things and just break up the routine in a healthy way.   On this trip for example I found the inspiration to start training for the ...read more

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  Both carry the energy of rebirth after shedding the old outdated ways of being.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