My experience

I believe at the foundation of most if not all pathology, diagnoses, and suffering is disconnection. Disconnection from our unstoried true nature, and disconnection from authentic, vulnerable, nourishing relationships. Whether romantic; platonic; friendship; familial; flora; fauna: unmasked interdependent interconnection is what I am committed to. Imperfectly. With you.

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Yet - I think all of us living under capitalist, domination-based cultures know that it's easier said than done, this intimacy stuff. We're taught to compete, to one-up; that hierarchy is the way. That we need to guard our hearts and that we can't trust each other, and/or cannot trust ourselves. We often end up treating ourselves the way we've been taught to treat each other: with an iron fist; go faster; do more. The way forward is by creating a new pattern. One devoted to compassion.

I believe that the severing from our inherent loving-kindness essence causes extreme suffering and that the more we become in tune with the internal rhythms inside of us, the more we remember this truth. I believe that by honoring our body's intelligence by slowing down to listen to the story of our nervous systems and psyches, we shift chaos and dysfunction into health and expansion. I believe in the healing power of our hearts; the kind of power that shares-with, soul-to-soul, not power-over or under.

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I work to invoke frameworks of compassion in those whom I work with, by modeling my own self-acceptance, self-compassion, willingness to be wrong, and action-based hope for healing. I guide compassion within through unlearning, active visualization, narrative reframing, and integration of head (intellect; cognition) and heart (nervous system; body; intuition; interconnection.)

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We are meant to grow, heal, expand, and evolve because we're verbs - not nouns; not fixed or stagnant.  

Thank you for being here.