Emotional Connection & Suicide Loss With Raphael Cushnir April 13, 2015 • 0 Comments In this 65 minute Healing Project Interview with author and renowned teacher, Raphael Cushnir, a leading voice in the world of emotional connection and present moment awareness, we talk about the importance of feeling emotions, especially the difficult ones, in order to heal. There are few experiences that bring us in contact with a wider range of painful emotions than the…
Healing Trauma: What It Means To Heal March 9, 2015 • 7 Comments This was originally a guest post over at Elin Stebbins Waldal’s beautiful blog and I wanted to share it here: Traumatic experiences can dramatically interrupt our lives, like a mighty ice storm, and instantly change the landscape. We then face the question of whether we are going to remain frozen in the position the storm left us, or smash the…
The Transformative Power of Heartfelt, Active Listening December 5, 2014 • 7 Comments When was the last time you felt truly heard? I mean attentively listened to in a way that allowed you to actually hear what you were saying and make sense of it on your own, a time when your words were spoken and witnessed, no need for solutions, just a willing ear openly receiving them. I began to notice…
Life Transitions and the Beauty of Sharing Wisdom September 12, 2014 • 0 Comments This Fall seems to be full of transitions, and I am trying to keep up with it all, but honestly, always feel like I am falling behind. No pun intended. I keep thinking things will begin to simplify and slow down, but the pace just seems to get faster. Since this is my favorite time of year, however, I am…
Courage to Heal: Cultivating Your Bravery Muscle May 16, 2014 • 2 Comments As a traveler on the healing path, I am really beginning to understand how easy, yet ultimately more difficult, it is to move away from discomfort. Pain is not something we are taught to explore or embrace and we have become incredibly adept at avoiding it by pushing it as far away as possible, numbing it with drugs and alcohol,…
Healing Tools: Inviting Awareness In November 8, 2013 • 2 Comments “Awareness builds its own momentum.” Stephen Covey My mother was famous for saying, “This is the way I am. I can’t change.” And, by dint of osmosis and observation, I too believed that I was the way I was and couldn’t change. It’s a rather dangerous and dead-end way to conduct a life and I am living proof of the tragic…
The Healing Process: It’s a Marathon September 30, 2013 • 2 Comments “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas A. Edison Fifteen years ago I ran a marathon with the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training program. The spark for this adventure began when a friend of mine was in training for a marathon and I made the comment that there was no…
The Finale: The Healing Energy From Singing Your Heart Out July 24, 2013 • 9 Comments It’s not the easy stuff that changes us. It’s when we’re afraid we’ll fail, but we try anyway. It’s when what we want is just out of reach and we have to leap. It’s when we fall down—and when we get back up. It’s that little space between curiosity and courage where we decide it’s time to stop dreaming—and do.…
Tonight’s the Night: Stepping Into the Void for Healing and Transformation July 22, 2013 • 4 Comments “It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.” –B.K.S. Iyengar Well, the day has arrived and tonight I shall be stepping onto the stage to sing my song. It is difficult to describe the peace I feel about doing this now, having practiced and prepared as much as possible. All songs are committed to…
Bouncing Back: Resilience and Healing July 19, 2013 • 0 Comments “Our conditioning — the wiring of our neural circuitry as we learn from experience — sometimes goes awry. When this happens, we can find ourselves stuck in negative, dysfunctional response patterns that leave us feeling ineffective and miserable and more vulnerable to stressors or trauma.” —Linda Graham, Bouncing Back I found this very cool book, Bouncing Back, by Linda Graham.…