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How does your nervous system respond to the seasons?

June 19, 2022 0Comments

A rainbow in New Mexico. How does your nervous system respond to the seasons? While celebrating my one year anniversary of moving to New Mexico (after spending most my life in balmy and temperate Southern California), I’m LOVING the energy of the elements, lately. The high-desert heat, the intensity of the wind, the sudden rain.…

How Much of Your Life Force Energy are You NOT Allowing Yourself to Feel?

May 19, 2022 0Comments

We've all felt it... the surge of emotion. The wave of intensity. The energy that fills our beings that some part of us says is "too much". As a resourced, awake, aware goddess... you probably know intellectually that you're NOT too much. That every bit of you is divine. And yet.... there's a part of…

Do I Have to Remember the Trauma in Order to Heal?

December 14, 2020 0Comments

A common question I hear from clients goes something like this: “I think I’ve been affected by trauma, and that it’s affected my body/ health/ emotional well being.... but I don’t know which trauma caused this so I don’t know where to start to try to release and heal it. Do…

Your Thoughts, Feelings, and Perceptions are NOT the Truth

September 23, 2020 0Comments

Yesterday, I was reminded of something important by a very wise mentor of mine: "Your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are NOT the truth." And that statement completely re-calibrated some things that were feeling stuck for me. (Now, this statement might sound surprising coming from me, since I'm always talking about things like trusting…

Upper Limits Part Two: A Client Case Study

July 31, 2020 0Comments

I was happy to receive this from a lovely client today: Hi Rachel, Just wanted to share that I had an important realization related to our work together. Right now, I have more business than ever -- I'm booked for 3 solid weeks and requests for sessions are still coming in. I just sat…

Upper Limits and Your Nervous System

July 29, 2020 0Comments

Have you ever found yourself running into "upper limits"? One of the interesting things about how our nervous systems are wired is that they are set up first and foremost to keep us safe. To our nervous systems and primitive parts of our brain, the "known" feels safe, while the unknown feels like a…

Islands of Safety: Steps to Healing

July 17, 2020 0Comments

In the process of somatic healing, one of the things we start off with is looking for “islands of safety.” When things have been tough for a while, it can become challenging to feel or find any kind of safety. If the nervous system has never actually learned how to settle and feel safe, then…

Neurodiversity and Mindfulness

July 15, 2020 0Comments

One of the things I’m passionate about is honoring uniqueness and differences in the ways our brains and bodies are wired. Many folk struggle with mindfulness practices, and assume that the struggle means they need to just try harder. While honoring the truth that mindfulness is a practice and a discipline, it’s also…