Healing doesn’t arrive with a lot of fanfare. It doesn’t come in a flash of insight or a wave of understanding. It arrives slowly and quietly. Without announcement. And sometimes it comes when you’re not even looking for it — from surrendering to life and the simple tending to what’s present. When I was in…
Healing is nonlinear. It spirals inward toward the self and outward toward the people and communities we’re in relationship with. And it is marked by thresholds that invite us to deepen into the wisdom we already carry to begin living in alignment with it. This is what those thresholds have looked like so far on…
I was having breakfast with a friend over the weekend when she asked me what I mean when I say nervous system safety. I’ve been chewing over that question ever since. Because she’s right that it’s a word that gets used a lot, in somatic work, in nervous system healing, in trauma-informed spaces, and sometimes,…
For a long time, my life was organized around what needed my attention. Deadlines. Responsibilities. Other people’s needs. Work that mattered deeply and demanded everything I had. I didn’t think of this as a problem. I thought of it as commitment. As care. As doing what was necessary. What I didn’t realize was how little…