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Associate Yourself with Nature

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:December 2, 2021
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Contact with nature can steady your nervous system and counter a sense of isolation and unreality.

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Find Your Way to Rest

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:August 2, 2021
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Rest because it nourishes you and adds enjoyment to your life.

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Presence After Trauma: Introduction

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 1, 2016
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Becoming present is an ongoing exploration of willingness to accept what is, and willingness to allow it to change.

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Heal Around the Edges

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:May 2, 2016
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Trauma heals at the borders between comfortable and uncomfortable.

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Weave Your Body Whole

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 2, 2016
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Kabbalah helps us weave the bits of ourselves back together.

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Check In With Your Chakras

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:April 2, 2015
  • Post category:Healing Tools

The chakra system helps us focus on one kind of healing at a time, and notice what is going well in addition to what is difficult.

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Choose an Easier Road

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 2, 2015
  • Post category:Healing Tools

The first step toward an easier road might be permission to make choices that lessen pain.

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All Done! Tools for Rapid Change

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 2, 2014
  • Post category:Healing Tools

When we allow all our conflicting feelings to be present, drop what isn't ours, and imagine the problem is already solved, we can emerge into new terrain.

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The Power of Gentle

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:April 2, 2013
  • Post category:Healing Tools

We instinctively approach a frightened animal with slow, gentle movements and a soft voice. Traumatized humans need the same gentle approach.

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Navigate Change: Mind the Gap

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 2, 2013
  • Post category:Healing Tools

When we move mindfully through small and large gaps, we create space in our lives for healing.

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