

Emotional Courage: Feeling Your Feelings in Difficult Times With Emotional Capacity
Things are hard right now. It feels like every client who comes through my door is extra strained, extra disheartened, extra fearful, and just generally feeling beat down by life right now. You? There's a lot going on, and so I wanted to offer some encouragement and support. Why Emotional Capacity Matters in Difficult Times How do we have the emotional courage to feel our feelings in difficult times? Because I think there's never been a more important time for humans to f
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Attachment Patterns: What It Actually Means to Grow Up
If growing up were easy, everyone would do it. For many years, I was dedicated to growing up. That meant unraveling reactions and patterns that plagued me—especially in relationships. Pulling back. Lashing out. Being passive-aggressive. Feeling weakened and stuck in emotional sludge. It meant facing parts of myself. Mourning the loss of ideas and dreams my younger self held so closely. It meant a lot of mother-wound work. Understanding your attachment patterns is important, b
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Leadership Burnout: The Things That Changed It All
There is nothing more powerful than a human who can relate to the ISNESS that is here (the emotion, the reaction, the challenge, the goodness) AS A BODY. I didn’t know. I used to feel quite helpless, overwhelmed, pissed off, and super stressed—all the time. I had no idea how to meet the ISNESS that was arising in an empowered way. Everything felt hard and unfair. Why Leadership Burnout Isn’t Just Stress I had some great coping skills (super busy and a workaholic, savior f
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