My Musings on Mental Health…
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Free Therapy That No One Is Talking About: How To Use OAPIs To Make Nature Your Therapist
Here’s a bit of my story, the journey that brought me to this topic of nature as a healer… I was brought up by an adventure-loving single-mother and an involved extended family of outdoor enthusiasts. We often went camping and weekends were always occupied with an outdoor activity. I was the black sheep, the Millennial… Read more
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Somatic Psychotherapy: Tuning Into Our Wild Wisdom
Somatic Experiencing is about returning home in our own body. So often, we become disconnected from our physical self, especially when we are burdened by unresolved trauma. Body-oriented therapeutic approaches, like somatic work, can bypass the mind when words fail to help us process certain issues in our lives. Though somatic work was developed to… Read more
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Cultivating Self-Leadership With Internal Family Systems Therapy
Have you ever felt like one part of you wants one thing while another part holds you back? This is the foundation of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the idea that we are all made up of many different parts, and that living authentically requires us to speak to these parts, address inner conflicts and help… Read more
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Ecotherapy: Appreciating The Healing Power Of Nature
Humans have been relying on the healing power of nature since, well, since we become human, and probably before. We have used rhythm, movement, community, plants, and connection to the divine Mother Earth since our species stood from a crawl and stomped into the dawn of humanity. It is ancient knowledge and it has been… Read more
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Narrative Therapy: Storytelling Our Personal Journey
Narrative therapy is all about stories. In telling the narrative of our lives, we are able to take a step back from living the storyline and see our problems as separate from us. We can analyze our role as a supporting character in the lives of others, as well as how to become the main… Read more
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What The World Needs Now Is MINDFULNESS!
Mindfulness is a developable capacity for non-judgemental attention to current internal and external experiences characterized by a relaxed vigilance for distractions. To put it simply, it is being fully present to the here-and-now. Mindfulness is not a fad. It is an ancient tool for wellness that is so often overlooked, overcomplicated and underestimated in the… Read more