Embodied Psycho-Spiritual Therapy: Somatic healing and witchcraft
“Ancient goddess traditions understood what modern somatic therapies now affirm: that pleasure, embodiment, and connecting to the senses are gateways to healing and transcendence.” Dr. Denise Renye As i deepen into my personal practices of spirituality and somatic healing, I’m noticing more and more how i’m weaving them together. When i once kept the spools of thread very separate, i’m now appreciating how the tapestry is more enriched when all of me is present. In…
7 Days of Embodied Sensual Pleasure: Implementing a Pleasure Practice
I recently completed a course that I have been wanting to take for years. After being a student at University of Guelph for my undergrad, it had always been a…
Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Journey to Embracing Myself as a Sexual Mother
These past couple of years, i’ve been diving deeper in the parts of me that make me whole. It’s been a very intentional journey of getting to know what is…
My Embowered Birth: A Polyvagal-Informed Birth Story
After giving birth to my first child, i knew when it came time to birth my second, i wanted it to look different. It took a lot of inner work…
Stepping Out of the Fire: A Year of Living in a Pandemic
This has been the longest year. The official anniversary of the global pandemic was this week. Where i live, while we heard of Covid19 before March, my own life changed…
How do I Love Me? Let Me Count the Ways: Six Principles of Self-Love
This month, I have been diving into what ‘self-love’ means. Each year in February, i do a daily practice to honour what needs tending. It is a practice of self-love,…
Rise into a New Year
It’s 12 days into 2021. Today is the first New Moon of 2021 so a perfect time to look at the year ahead, with a strong back and soft heart.…
A Year in Review: My Mind Body Soul Rhythms
I am writing this from my bed on my birthday. Another turn around the sun. I am officially in my mid-forties now, as well as mid-life. I am in the…
The Journey to Me: Shadow Work and the Many Moons of the Self
I recently completed a course called Shadow Work, offered by Amy Wright Glenn at the Institute for Birth, Breath and Death. In honour of this darkening time of the year,…