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Chapter 1 — The Legacy of Relational Trauma
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible. – Aurora Levins Morales Trauma has become a very large word—so large, it […]
Emotional Sobriety
I can remember when I quit smoking as if it was yesterday. I had moved away from my very dysfunctional family in Ohio at 20 to come to Palo Alto, California and pursue my vision of an emotional and spiritual freedom I had never known growing up. After finding everything and more that I could […]
Starting The Soul’s Journey Anew
It has been a little over six months since Holly passed away peacefully, bathed in the golden glow of the midday sun that filled her room and held all of us there in the quiet awe that one can only feel in the presence of the sacred. I have experienced sacred consciousness and manifestation quite […]
The Promise of Love
There is no deeper place in our drive to self-actualize than the need to find the love within us and share it with each other. Along with all the other ways in which we can grow into successful individuals – such as education, career, adventure or creativity – the ability to love ourselves and each […]
Our Emotional Voice: the power to heal and self-actualize.
My approach to the healing journey begins with perhaps the single most important part of being a well-actualized individual, because it is the root of all of our personal power: our emotional voice, and the choice to use it. The first thing to understand is that choosing to use your emotional voice means that you […]
A New Definition of Love
In my upcoming book “Healing Your Heart – A Journey Into Wholeness”, I am offering a new psychology of love. To create a psychology of love that lays a solid foundation for understanding how we work emotionally and cognitively, as well as providing a clear pathway to healing our hearts and becoming whole people, we […]
A Year Later, Having Danced With Death.
It has been a year since I wrote anything on this blog, and I’d like to share with you where I have been. My partner Holly went into the hospital last December and was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast and bone cancer. When she was admitted, she was within several days of dying from kidney […]
7.6.12 – A New Book Excerpt, Ch.1
If you have found this book then you’ve probably been living with emotional pain that has brought you to a place where you need to take action, and you’re ready to find answers and healing. To be honest, emotional healing is not something one walks into as simply as getting a massage or an acupuncture […]
Getting Beyond “Get Over It”
As a Life Coach and Breathwork Therapist, my role is to teach people the emotional skills that empower them to heal, find balance, and love well. And of all those skills, none may be as essential as the skill of uprooting from within ourselves one of the most destructive forms of emotional imprinting we receive […]