Whether we’re concerned about questions we have regarding our health, decisions of the heart and other important life issues, it seems we always are asking for signs. Truly, they are all around — and we can tune into them, ride the wave, and catch the momentum of what is happening…
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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…
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…
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?…
Fathering
We humans do not come into this world as a blank slate or an empty vessel. We emerge from the womb with a set of predestined needs, desires, and expectations that are paradoxically both universal and also unique to each individual. Carl Jung, in his depth exploration of the psyche,…
Change – Inside and Out
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. -W. H. Auden, from The Age of Anxiety We begin therapy because we want to change something. Often therapy is…
A Parents’ Guide for a COVID-19 Summer
Summer’s Here: A Parents’ Guide for Meeting the Challenge During the COVID-19 Pandemic There’s a little extra chaos and commotion in many homes nowadays due to the uncertainty of this time. School is essentially out for the summer leaving parents scrambling around, wondering what to do with their kids. In fact,…
Pan and the forest dark Part 2
Part 2 of a three part series. For Part 1 click here As we all, hopefully, Humpty Dumpty requires a few Band-Aids, some duct tape, a significant makeover, a psychological evaluation, and maybe a lobotomy. Patterns and routines that need to change quickly melt away, while others demonstrate the defiance…
