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The Philosophical
How do we create change in our lives, behaviors, minds, and relationships? Therapy is one vehicle for change.
You cannot change anything until you know what you are doing. -M. Feldenkrais
Paying attention to our moment-to-moment experience creates potential for transformation. Steady awareness, like a stream of water, reshapes even the most unyielding landscape. Possibility, freedom, and choice wait patiently for the moment when we listen to that inner voice we're always hearing.
All that we do and have done has helped us survive. Self-protection, in all its forms is to be respected. I do not believe that vulnerability and strength are opposites. I do believe cultivating self-compassion and appreciating all it took to get you to this moment is essential for growth and healing.
You cannot change anything until you know what you are doing. -M. Feldenkrais
Paying attention to our moment-to-moment experience creates potential for transformation. Steady awareness, like a stream of water, reshapes even the most unyielding landscape. Possibility, freedom, and choice wait patiently for the moment when we listen to that inner voice we're always hearing.
All that we do and have done has helped us survive. Self-protection, in all its forms is to be respected. I do not believe that vulnerability and strength are opposites. I do believe cultivating self-compassion and appreciating all it took to get you to this moment is essential for growth and healing.
The concrete
I ask a lot of questions to help you examine your underlying belief structures and more deeply know your own mind.
I use mindfulness techniques to help you attend to what is right here, right now. Learning more about what you do and how you do it can help you make choices about how you want to be in the world and in your life.
You already have everything you need to live a fulfilling and joyous life. By integrating your thinking, feeling, and sensing we will work to cultivate your innate gifts and respectfully let go of old habits so you can live more fully. We approach all of this with generosity, humor, and an openness to whatever we uncover.
I use mindfulness techniques to help you attend to what is right here, right now. Learning more about what you do and how you do it can help you make choices about how you want to be in the world and in your life.
You already have everything you need to live a fulfilling and joyous life. By integrating your thinking, feeling, and sensing we will work to cultivate your innate gifts and respectfully let go of old habits so you can live more fully. We approach all of this with generosity, humor, and an openness to whatever we uncover.
Context
Our lives are composed of the stories of our ancestry, which are housed within cultures and institutions that shape us in a multitude of ways. including these elements help us make sense of our personal challenges within larger systems of power, privilege, & oppression.
"The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads."
-Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
-Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
"the taste in all our mouths is the taste of power
and it is bitter as death
bring yrself home to yrself, enter the garden
the guy at the gate w/the flaming sword is yrself"
~"Rant" by
Diane DiPrima
and it is bitter as death
bring yrself home to yrself, enter the garden
the guy at the gate w/the flaming sword is yrself"
~"Rant" by
Diane DiPrima