Beliefs || 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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Learning to Love Oneself ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC

“We will never be able to really love ourselves until we go beyond the need to make life wrong.”   Writes Louise Hay, one of the most prolific writers on the topic of self-love. What does she mean by this? Most of us have an inner critic, often the voice of a parent, that is…

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Mind/ Body / Spirit: Integrating the Whole Being ll By Faye Maguire

We often hear about “treating the whole person”, which is an acknowledgement that modern Western medicine and psychology has, in practice, separated human beings in disparate parts and treated those parts as if they exist in a vacuum, unconnected to the rest of the person. Medicine has become the domain of specialists, highly educated in…

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