Archive for April 2024
The Impact of Trauma on our Pursuit of Meaning & Purpose || By Kevin Culver LPCC
Trauma is inherently disruptive – it disrupts our lives, our relationships, and our sense of self, safety, and wholeness. For this post, I want to focus on the ways trauma impacts our lives and how therapy can help get us back on track. The wide-spread impact of trauma Trauma occurs when one is exposed to…
Read MoreSpirituality in Daily Life: Reject the box—not the Mystery! || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards MA
Spirituality—no one institution or religious practice owns its definition. In previous blogs, I have said it seems to imply: 1 – Staying present to your current experience: basically, HOW is your NOW? Your NOW holds valuable information. 2 – A space where we experience Oneness with the Universe, Divine, Higher Consciousness, Gaia, Brahman, Ultimate Reality,…
Read MoreHow to Accompany Ourselves and Others in Grief || By Catherine Dockery, MA, Conscious Aging Facilitator
Feeling grief was impossible for me most of my life. I grew up in the middle of a very large family, My mom had absolutely no capacity to hold her own grief nor to recognize or welcome mine. I learned really quickly to be strong, to be independent and not too needy. In order to…
Read MoreSensory Sensitivity: Discovering What Sensory Sensitivity Looks Like Newly Diagnosed || By Deanna Edwards, ACP Intern at People House
“My senses are just a bit more sensitive than most people’s. It’s like living in a world where you’re wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. Everything’s a bit off.” – Temple Grandin Recently, I’ve been exploring a fascinating topic during my therapy sessions: sensory sensitivity. It’s where individuals have a heightened awareness and responsiveness to…
Read MoreUnlocking the Superpower of Deep Focus: Tools to Keep You in the Zone || By Annabelle Denmark MA, LPCC
As I type away, fueled by two sips of now-cold tea, I’ve accomplished a whopping 75% website revamp (it’s a glow-up, trust me) – all thanks to deep focus mode. 🚀 Deep focus, a superpower common among many neurodivergent individuals, is the art of zeroing in on a task to the point where the entire…
Read MoreBeliefs || By Chardin Bersto MA
In our last blog I briefly described the essence of how the Vagal system operates when we perceive our environment. When we came to this world, we did not have a language to label our experience, we were experience and expression all in one fell swoop. It was in this innocent stage that the family…
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