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If your client has trouble:

• • • Marketing their business with all of their weird creative amazingness,

    • Saying no to dreaded family events

    • Or even asking for what they want in bed…

…they might have a throat block.

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In codependent relationships on an energetic level your energy is enmeshed. And sometimes even though your energy is enmeshed your heart is closed to protect yourself.

In a healthy relationship you can step in and out of the other person’s energy field, so you can empathize with them but you can also step away (either physically or energetically) and feel your own feelings about the situation.

Continue reading “Somatic Techniques for Codependence”

Folks socialized as women are taught “don’t be a bitch” which translates to “don’t get angry.” And folks socialized as black women get a double whammy with the “don’t be another angry black woman” message…

This might not seem like a big deal but it can decrease:

• • • Your income
    • Your access to pleasure and relaxation
    • AND it can cause health and relationship problems!

Continue reading “Embrace Your Inner Bitch”

Being trauma informed, in a nutshell, means you respect the other person’s boundaries.

Here’s why: trauma teaches you that healthy boundaries don’t work. Every single two year old says no no no no no! Until they learn, through psychological or physical trauma, that no doesn’t work.

Continue reading “How to be Trauma Informed”

You might’ve learned that receiving always had a catch. You had to give back, even if it was something subtle like praising your mom’s cooking.

As I type this, I feel the heavy icky feeling of obligation in my chest.

The good news is healing this will impact your love life, money mindset, ability to enjoy vacation, career fulfillment, all the things.

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When you go to the Hyatt, you’re paying for the gorgeous bedding and for the care and attention of the staff.

Can you imagine the grumpy smelling of cigarettes Motel 6 employee there? Me neither…

Continue reading “Hyatt vs Motel 6”

In this episode of the Sacred Goals Podcast, psychiatrist Dr Kathleen Young and I talk about mental health stigma, Bryn shares why she’s considering medication for the first time in her life and we discuss how stigma is changed throughout history and what you can do.

Let’s eliminate the stigma together!

Continue reading “Mental Health Stigma”

Imagine a 5 year old that’s really mad but has to keep her anger in because she knows there’ll be some sort of consequence if she stomps or yells.

She keeps the anger in by breathing more shallowly, tensing her shoulders and buttocks, gritting her teeth to keep the feelings inside.

Continue reading “How Somatics Work”