While on a recent European trip, a brief conversation with my travel partner had me feeling out of sorts. Recognizing that my emotional responses to our conversation were just that. My responses, my feelings, I began applying for myself the Emotional Freedom and Intention Energy Process Techniques I use with…
Forgive and forget. Easy to say, not always so easy to do. What are we supposed to do about the "unforgiveable"? Many of us carry the heavy burden of resentment, hurt, outrage, and/or disappointment for what others have or haven’t done in the past. The transgressions are so big…
If you want to leave the world better than you found it, you have a fundamental responsibility to find your Edge. Kirra Michel is my favourite Peloton yoga instructor. She does these advanced classes that are just wonderfully challenging, and half the time I can’t manage most of them so…
95% of the time I spend using Highlighters in this office is NOT to underline important information. No no, but rather to produce that soul satisfying “pop” sound they make when you handle them properly. And all just for the purpose of putting a smile on my face. I can…
Many of us are terribly self judgmental. Victims of all-or-nothing thinking about our performance, appearance, and worth. This often takes the form of automatic negative tapes running in our heads. Since learning self compassion is a critical skill in developing emotional resiliency, the long term effects of this self talk…
I’m grumpy. It’s been a week. Controversy, convoys, conspiracy correlations. I’m fed up with it, and I’m done. Except it’s not necessarily done with me. One of the most powerful lessons I ever learned as a healer was that feelings are vibrations in the body. At first, I thought that…
Here's another story of a recent patient of mine. Like many, this woman came for therapy to improve her quality of life. She was experiencing high stress and anxiety. The session began as I normally like them to. I started explaining that no matter what happened, she would never hurt,…
I taught my first class as a real-live teacher this week, and I just about threw up on myself. I’ve been teaching in some capacity for years, presenting at events and conferences of up to 400 people without completely losing my s**t. But this - this opportunity to teach was…
Mainstream medicine now accepts that the conscious, and unconscious mind, body, and immune system are all intimately interconnected. It’s a continuous and very responsive, multi-directional feedback system. The happy practical result of this, is that you can support the entire system through any one or more of these pathways. One…
