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Embodiment Practice

Playing A Game With Catastrophic Thinking

Most people engage in self-limiting cognitive activity in one form or another, to one degree or another. – Catastrophic thinking is a kind of self-limiting cognitive activity. It distorts our experience and perspective. And for those who journey with a mood disorder, this is no

Navigating psycho-emotional rapids with AAIT

Learning to paddle an oar boat on the Colorado River was one of the funnest and most challenging things I ever did. I spent many summers in high school in a canoe, but a big oar boat in big water, that was new territory. –

EMBODIMENT ~ Compassion Edition

Several years ago I told Zivorad that I had run out of things to work with in my personal practice … oh, the hubris! I mean, my life was good. At that point, I had been using integration practices as part of my daily meditation

How To Embody The Best Of Who You Are

EMBODIMENT Most of us think of embodiment having to do wholly with our bodies. With AAIT, embodiment is a home practice that puts the power to disrupt a “sub-optimal state of being” in our hands, within our grasp. This is profoundly empowering for practitioners and

5 Tips For Tending To Compassion Fatigue

COMPASSION FATIGUE - "indifference to charitable appeals on behalf of those who are suffering, experienced as a result of the frequency or number of such appeals." It may start out as a kind of numbness or irritability. You might feel impatient or just wish someone

RESIST MUCH?

RESIST MUCH? Carolyn and her daughter Jessie are in the thick of individuation in the middle of a pandemic. The arguments are, well, unpleasant. After a layered exploration of Carolyn’s experience of Jessie, the good, the bad, the ugly, she felt better. Feeling more steady

Embodying Resilience

RESILIENCE, we can embody that. Or we can embody the opposite. OR, we can find the very real freedom of easy access to both with equal ease. And, consider that there are several opposites to resilient.   What do you feel when you are NOT

How To Tend To Tension Between Two Emotions

If Self Acceptance was a country, Dick Olney would be its Poet Laureate. If Integration was a country, Zivorad Slavinski would be its Minister of Wholeness. Dick was fond of the ancient Arabian aphorism, “Trust God and tie your camel.” I found the seeming tension

Feeding Our Capacity For Resilience

RESILIENCY ~ the ability to weather life’s storms with relative steadiness, the ability to “bounce back.” According to the APA, resiliency is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress.” We all could benefit from