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Anchor Terror in Time

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:October 2, 2020
  • Post category:Emotions

Terror moves us to act in the present, shows us where kind attention is needed to heal our past, and directs us to prepare for the future.

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Lift the Anger Lid With Care

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:July 1, 2020
  • Post category:Emotions

Anger can fuel change toward more kindness, more truth, more respect, and more justice.

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Make Room for Grief

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 1, 2019
  • Post category:Emotions

Grief is as individual and as universal as a fingerprint.

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Resonate With Loneliness

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:June 1, 2018
  • Post category:Emotions

Every time we turn toward our own experience with warmth, we strengthen our Inner Nurturer.

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Depression: Natural Response to Trauma

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 1, 2018
  • Post category:Emotions

You are not broken. Your responses make sense. As you find ways to sit with inner terror and misery and loneliness for as long as they are there, they will gradually shift and make room for new feelings.

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Sit with Disappointment

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:September 1, 2017
  • Post category:Emotions

When we can sit with disappointment, we find our own balance between acceptance and efforts toward change.

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Counter the Feelings Police

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 1, 2017
  • Post category:Emotions

Emotions are meant to move. Giving them more space allows them to flow and change, peak and ebb.

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