Swimming Upstream
No matter how hard I try I don’t feel like I am getting anywhere. Everything is a struggle, and I don’t get any support. I give and give and give and then I get resentful.” If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many adults who grew up with a wounded or...
Attune to the Health
When you look out toward or you are in nature, it shifts you. Close your eyes for a few moments and visualize a beautiful natural setting that you know and love. Notice the ways in which it starts to change your inner experience. Stay with it and observe how...
Slow … Sense … Receive…
This guided meditation is designed to help you learn how to move out of thinking and into body / somatic sensing, which opens the door to inner slowing as well as greater receiving of your innate health, regulation, and metabolism. Most of us are chronically...
What is Systemic & Somatic Healing?
Most of you, especially Moms, are working on yourselves. You know what your stuff is and you do what you can to be more mindful, caring, and calm. Then there's the stuff that just keeps happening, that you can't figure out how to shift or that scares you and...
Identification with an Excluded Family Member
We all love a good love story, right? Well, here’s a great one. John graduated from college, married Katy, his high school sweetheart and landed the job of his dreams all by the age of twenty-four. Three years later, John was promoted to Vice-President of...
The Four Unconscious Systemic Dynamics
Four Kinds of Unconscious Love In a Family Constellation, we look for the four UNCONSCIOUS dynamics that individually, or in any combination, block systemic health and express themselves in all kinds of issues and symptoms. The more you know about your...
Interrupted Bond
Life was just fine for very competent, independent, 33 year-old Wendy. She enjoyed her job as a creative executive at a top advertising agency; she loved the new house she just bought; and she had lots of wonderful friends. She had everything she wanted,...
ABUSE AND THE 405
While crawling along the 405 southbound heading to Santa Monica, which actually is a misrepresentation of the speed I was going as I can swear a turtle passed me with a snail on its back yelling “wheeeee”! I was listening to sport’s talk radio and the...
Tug of War
Linda, 52, is divorced and a mother of two children, David and Cindy. She had complaints about her son. “David has disappointed me to no end. I raised him to be a good boy with strong family values and a good work ethic. But instead, he turns out to be an...
Differentiating from Unconscious Systemic Imprints
Ever have the feeling that you are watching yourself do or say something that you really don’t want to do or say but are powerless to stop? Or that you and your partner want to get closer but some invisible force keeps you at a distance? You can see and...
