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Couples Counseling…With Myself?
Read more: Couples Counseling…With Myself?I just got finished with my first ever couples counseling session…with Shadow. Bet you didn’t know that was a thing! I mean I didn’t know it was a thing. Holy moly do I feel good. After the session completed, I wanted to get home as soon as I could so that I could accurately document…
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Shadowed Selves Finally Show Face
Read more: Shadowed Selves Finally Show FaceThese last few months have been subtly transformational to the naked eye, yet deeply relieving for the experiencer. From the outside looking in you wouldn’t see a brand new person. You’d see the same one, just maybe less stoned. It feels like my world has been moving at a snail’s pace and maybe there’s nothing…
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Shifting The Direction of Our Environmental Suffering: Sensual Responsibilities
Read more: Shifting The Direction of Our Environmental Suffering: Sensual ResponsibilitiesTouch, taste, smell, audio, and sight: could these universal human processes be the key to saving the planet from its projected demise? The brain is constantly monitoring its surroundings, searching for threats and opportunities, and taking in an overload of information to store away for later use. In a world where we are constantly overstimulated…
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Is Healthy Communication The First Step Towards Environmental Healing?
Read more: Is Healthy Communication The First Step Towards Environmental Healing?Every single person on this planet has a voice, now don’t we? We all have a voice and there is a whole social movement encouraging each one of us to exercise it and express ourselves so genuinely and so fully. “We want to see the real you!” They exclaim through snapchat filters and layers of…
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So You Want To Stop Feeling Like Shit?
Read more: So You Want To Stop Feeling Like Shit?Ever since I was little I have attempted to improve myself in one way or another, seemingly obsessed with the idea of “better.” I’d make my own meals, separate from what my family was eating, with what I believed was healthy. I’d exercise frequently, even when I was sick, in order to stay consistent. Youtube…
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What Makes The Journey Worth It
Read more: What Makes The Journey Worth ItUpon a journey filled with breaking self destructive habits and rewiring your brain, there are select moments that remind you why all the hard work is indeed worth it. This past weekend I was given the affirmative sign that I have been waiting for, telling me that all the uprooting I did was absolutely necessary…
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The Forgotten Feeling: For We Meet Again!
Read more: The Forgotten Feeling: For We Meet Again!It’s interesting the string of events that follow after allowing yourself to feel into a lifelong suppressed emotion. For me, anger is an unfamiliar feeling. Sort of like that distant relative that the family collectively shuns. Explaining to little kid you that your cousin Anger hit his mom in the face during a nervous breakdown…
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Self Care Slay
Read more: Self Care SlayToday is the first day where I feel free enough to lean into some true self care for myself. The last few months have not felt safe enough to do so, because if I took care of myself in the deep ways that I needed then a lot of emotional ruckus would most likely explode…
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Who Do We Consider A Friend?
Read more: Who Do We Consider A Friend?Continuing on the saga of standing behind my choices even when others wish I wouldn’t, I have a story for you. But first, here is some context… I have had quite a difficult time with my mental health in the last few months. Understandably so, it’s been a hard year in a lot of ways.…
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Self Soothing Through The Navigation of Self-Interest
Read more: Self Soothing Through The Navigation of Self-InterestI believe that my nervous system is trying to tell me something. It feels like I swallowed a hive of bees, which totally pissed them off by the way, and now they are swarming intensely underneath the layers of my skin. The constant alerting buzz is driving me crazy! Uncomfortable in my own skin and…
