Little Warrior, You Can Play Now

Little Warrior, You Can Play Now

4-27-2011 This morning I was guided to invite little licia to start to tell her story to me.  I have felt her stirring internally, like she was readying herself to speak. What she told me this morning affirmed her strength and resilience and adaptability.  She...
Meet My Daughter

Meet My Daughter

The mother I had as a child taught me that it was correct to lie to authority in order to make oneself look good.  This lesson was taught when I was 5-6 years old, when my family looked for a house to rent in our new town.  My parents chose a brick ranch in the...
Compassion in Remembering

Compassion in Remembering

I’m currently experiencing the release of old body memory.  I’ve gone through phases of this at different times in my life since I began recovery work from childhood sexual violence at age 23.  Each time this happens, I am more awestruck by the healing process and the...
Integration of the Parts

Integration of the Parts

I’ve received some interesting responses to my last post, mostly in private.  Seems I’ve hit a nerve in initiating a conversation about healing wounds of the heart. I sometimes think of trust as a fabric, our original design, a picture of innocence, beauty and...
The Heart of the Collective

The Heart of the Collective

“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” Norman Vincent Peale It’s no big secret that the heart is important…if we want to love, want to connect, want truer answers, we have all heard they lie in the heart.  We’ve...