I’ve heard many people echo the sentiment that this holiday season hasn’t felt relaxing, or even slowed down. Many of us are still grinding, trying to get ahead of the new year and finish the never ending list of to-do’s for 2022. Just making the holidays happen is an incredibly…
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Reframing Fertility
Using supportive language to frame your fertility journey Where Do We Begin When We Treat Infertility? With an invitation + body trust + acceptance of the mystery. Read the following contrasting mantras and, as you read them, feel how they land on you: I am doing everything perfectly…
Dreaming Big & Remembering Desire
It can, at times, be virtuous to use restraint. There are times that a holding back of desire is truly called for and appreciated. Say, for instance, there are only 4 pieces of pizza and 4 hungry people to feed. It would clearly be greedy to take more than one…
Living the Dream
“The dream is a living thing, by no means a dead thing that rustles like dry paper. It is a living situation; it is like an animal with feelers or with many umbilical cords.” C. G. Jung “I had the weirdest dream last night.” How often have we said…
Cycle of Giving & Receiving: A Holistic Approach
Did you know that giving and receiving need each other to exist? Did you know that all opposites need one another to exist? That we could not turn something “on” if we couldn’t also turn that thing “off”; that what we understand as “cold” would be completely different if we…
How Play Is Beneficial In Helping Children Process Stress & Trauma
Play for many can be defined as a period in which imaginative, relaxing, and self-directed activities occur. Play allows us to step in to a space where we are allowed to dance between the spaces of real life and alternate realities. This access to play and being able to dance…
All Hallows’ Eve
As spring is associated with birth and new beginnings, fall is the season associated with death and endings. But before you start thinking of this is a negative thing, remember that there can be no new beginnings without endings. Whether we have to experience a little “death” (moving away from…
Happy Autumnal Equinox!
Welcome to Fall, folks. Even in Houston we’re feeling it. Cooler temps, rain, maybe you’re even noticing a change in mood from feeling super care-free to feeling a bit more serious or melancholy. Even if your mood hasn’t changed, we’re guessing your schedule probably has tightened up a bit, right?…
Parents Guide To A Better Relationship With Your Child This New School Year
Summer vacation is winding down, and by now we’ve all just adjusted into the summer schedule, but the stress of an upcoming school year (if it’s actually happening) is on the horizon. Sprinkle in the normal stress of parenting PLUS work, and everything in between and it gets so overwhelming. Parents…
Psychoanalysis and Music: Listening to the Balance
I feel very fortunate to be a member of the talented and diverse team at The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences. I am a Jungian Analyst in Training at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP Zurich), though becoming a Jungian analyst is something I could not have…
