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The FREE Collective Trauma Summit 2022: Creating a Global Healing Movement is starting soon, and I’m excited to extend an invitation to you! This is a nine-day online event to explore emerging solutions for healing individual, ancestral, and collective trauma. When you register, you’ll be able to see the powerful lineup of speakers including therapists, […]

“When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we are not pretending, we are not hiding—we are simply present with whatever is going on inside us. Ironically, it is this very feeling of authenticity that draws people to us, not the brittle effort of perfectionism.”  ~Maureen Cooper Most people in my life would call me an

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi The hardest battle I’ve fought is an ongoing one. It’s an all-consuming shadow of dread that never leaves, only resting long enough for me to catch my breath. I know what it feels like to be depressed. I know the feeling of pain and

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ” ~Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart I

“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” ~Unknown It’s hard and uncomfortable to sit with pain, our own or someone else’s. We don’t like to see people hurting, especially people we love, because we instinctively want to make them feel better, and we feel powerless if

“Staying sober really was the most important thing in my life now and had given me direction when I thought I had none.” ~Bradley Cooper I remember that exact feeling of shame that washed over me when I was filling Yeti water bottles with 100 proof vodka instead of water. Then I chugged it, all