Our brain is not the CEO of our body. A very wise young woman I support shared this metaphor with me. Her reflection led me to think about how we've been taught generation after generation, through the process of colonization, that rationality and reason are the most valuable. We have been affirmed and lauded when we consider our brain's thinking process as the boss, which, in turn, penalizes us for connecting to our felt sense. What happens when we recognize that we may be, unintentionally,...

“There is a dynamic reciprocity between the receptive and the active, each reflecting the other, and at the centre between them is our agency. Choice, and the lucidity to make choices, is where the real magic lies." - Toko-pa Turner, Belonging I've been reading the book Your Attention is Sacred - Except on Social Media by Amelia Hruby. I got the book a while ago to support Amelia's choice to self-publish outside of the Amazon monopolies and hadn't read it yet (mostly because my reading time...

I am not a failure because my body has needs. Those are the words that brought tears to my eyes during a recent therapy session. I didn’t realize I needed to hear myself say them. It was tough to recognize that while I beautifully and gently hold that truth for the people whose healing journeys I support, I wasn’t holding it for myself. Bodies are not broken. We don’t need fixing. Our bodies want and deserve attention, they need to be tended to. They tell us about their needs through...