Posts Tagged ‘emotions’
Acknowledging the Mess II By Marielle Grenade-Willis MA, LPCC
I recently saw Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters, and I kid you not that my eyes were wet from the emotional whiplash for almost the entire movie. The film feels like colliding with the entire universe in that every scene is emotionally and sensorially over-the-top. To reduce the entire plot to a battle…
Read MoreInstinct, Emotions, or Intuition? II By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA
Instinct and Emotions “What’s going on? Is my instinct for survival kicking in, am I falling back into an old emotional pattern, or is my intuition telling me something?” These are common questions that arise in my spiritual facilitation work. Eckhart Tolle says an instinctive response is the body’s direct response to an external…
Read MoreDefusion 101: How Cognitive Defusion Can Help You Reclaim Your Power ll By Gina Henschen, MA, LPCC
Negative thoughts can be tough to shake, especially if you’ve been struggling with them for a long time. These thoughts may have such a hold over us that they affect our feelings, behavior, and even our sense of self. If this is something you experience, know that you’re not alone. You may have tried various…
Read MoreA Summer Solstice Meditation on Change and Light ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year. It’s the day where the sun seems to “stand still” at that point on the horizon where it appears to rise and set, and then it appears to reverse its course over what it just traversed. It’s…
Read MorePresence in Humanness: Connection with Ourselves and Connection with Others ll By Colleen Ladd
I’ve been contemplating the way we run from presence, in all of the ways we have been taught and have so finely crafted for ourselves. Whether it be with work, substances or social media, our dominant Western and white supremacist culture has us valuing and investing energy and time into independence, yet the culture doesn’t…
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read More7 Tips for Staying Power ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
How will you navigate what’s next? We’re more than six months into a pandemic with more months to come, even with the promise of a vaccine. Anger: A secondary reaction to pain, not good or bad—but what you do with it 1-TURN OFF THE NEWS. I cannot stress this enough. We as a species come…
Read MoreMind/Body/Spirit # 4: Treating Anxiety Holistically ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC
We live in a very anxious world. Sometimes it seems like everyone is stressed out. External pressures from needing to provide the basic necessities of life to feeling the need to fit in and not be judged by others can become the focus of my internal dialogue. My basic definition of anxiety is “fear of…
Read MoreHow the Act of Caring Gets You Back to Love ll By Dorothy Wallis
Doesn’t it feel wonderful when you know that someone cares for you? It is a deeply felt knowing that you are not alone in the world. It is an essential need. There is a longing to be connected to someone in your life that supports you and has your back. When you don’t feel “cared…
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