It's Summer Solstice My Loves I see how hard you’ve worked this spring. The countless hours of dedication to your responsibilities, the devotion to what is on your plate, and the mental energy dispensed to create what is present today. I see and feel your impact. Settle in, notice your body breathing on its own. You’ve done so much. Would you be willing to lie down on the grass in the warm sunlight? Or lounge on your porch with the late light aglow, or surrender to a good

When our lives continue to operate at a pace that isn’t sustainable, the burnout, reactivity, and disconnect remove us from what actually matters. This is how trauma imprinting works, even if it was trauma from decades ago or last year, if the survival imprint never got relief, it compels the personality, the psyche, and the nervous system to carry on AS IF those survival strategies are still needed. Even so much as to project the map of threat onto present-day scenarios that

Imagine for a moment separating yourself from everything happening in the world, your personal life, the loud buzz of existence, and see it all move and change around you. Untangle, observe, tap in deeper just into you. Notice your breath, your legs, the layer of skin and muscles that holds your life force. "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Psychiatrist and

Much of therapy is learning to love well. Suffering, pain, war, hunger, betrayal, abuse of power, loss…all experiences that we will and are experiencing. Individual and collective. Let this spring equinox be an invitation to hold it all with compassion, care, fierce love, and life-force creativity. The sun and the return to more daylight mirror and invite a return to aliveness. Alive. Despite. Alive, and with. Alive, but. Alive, while others… And this too: Alive. With. It.