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Sleep: Laying the Groundwork for Self & Community Care ll By Marielle Grenade-Willis
Sleep has always been elusive for me, especially since I left home for college in 2010. I always envied those who seemed to be able to sleep easily without any adjustments in their environment. Over the years, I came to understand some of my triggers for not sleeping well: drinking caffeine past 12PM, having difficult…
The Practice of Self-Compassion ll By Stephanie Boulton, MA, LPCC
In my practice I work from a neurobiological perspective. In a nutshell, this means I focus on how a person’s nervous system has learned to regulate and how it has adapted to past events. Neurobiology’s main premise (based on lots of research) is that we are biologically wired in certain ways and being mammals, we…
For the Amicably Uncoupling Couple ll By Sonya Som, MA, MFTC, LPCC
This post is for the amicably uncoupling couple, the partners that, either consciously or not, are in the process of dissolving a once cherished and valuable partnership. At one point, you both experienced and expressed love for each other, and felt, on some level, satisfaction with your romance and relationship. Something about it worked. Maybe…
Ritual 101: Basic Ingredients for Creating Rituals Daily ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
As a collective, as a nation, we’ve very recently experienced an ending and a beginning. This is how we honor the transition of power in our country… we say farewell to one leader as we welcome and prepare for another. This is our way. We mark this process with ritual… as we did with the…
Why Meditate? ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC
Over the years, and especially in recent months, I have been encouraging my clients to try meditation, and have suggested it as a major change agent in their lives. As meditation has grown in popularity over the years, and as more information about it as a practice has been written about, many people have given…
Believing in Believing ll By David Hoefer, NLC
A politician claims widespread fraud with no evidence to support his claim, yet many believe him. How can this be? From birth we are bombarded with dogma: Merriam Webster defines dogma as “a point of view put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds.” We are conditioned early on, for better or worse, to believe. Believing…
What is People House Spirituality? Steps to Transformation in 2021 ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
It’s paying attention and growing in consciousness. It’s watching your energy—consciousness and energy cannot be separated. Energy manifests itself in your body in the form of physical sensations, usually because of an emotional response—joy, fear, shame, anxiety—to an inner or outer experience. It’s discovering, remembering your own truth. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it…
Mindfully Releasing 2020 and Welcoming the New Year! ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now. ~ Mark Nepo For years I attended a church that offered an annual end of year ritual, a burning bowl ceremony. The event invited participants to release anything that felt important to let go of…
Creating a Safe Sanctuary for Your Relationship to Flourish ll By Dorothy Wallis
We enter into relationship. There is something about this person that attracts us and thus begins the journey into love. Magnetized by this spell, we innocently and naively and often blissfully, sometimes cautiously, “fall in love.” Have you wondered why it is called “falling in love?” Love pulls us into a chasm, the magnitude of…
There’s Magic in the Air ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
So sings Kermit in “The Muppet Christmas Carol.” On the one hand, we hear the word “magic” and we rational humans relegate it to the trash heap of irrationality. On the other, we’re hoping it’s real and that we can recreate that magic through our traditions. I propose a third option, built around that liminal…
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The opinions expressed by the guest bloggers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of People House. The content provided through the People House website and blogs are for informational purposes only. Should you decide to take action in real life based on this information that is your own responsibility and choice.
