Yesterday.

Why Somatic Therapy? After spending the past five years studying, exploring, trying out different complementary modalities, why have I decided to focus my practice on this one? Here are some of the layers of my answer. I’ve talked myself and others in circles and tied myself up in knots. For those of us who think…

I spent the afternoon in my garden yesterday. I hadn’t planned to, in fact, other than a couple of walk bys, I haven’t given it a thought in months. When I put it to sleep, under a thick layer of mulch weeks ago I hadn’t planned what would come next or when. I had set…

This is a story I’ve written and told parts of at different times in different ways. It’s the story of advocating for our children and their needs in the school setting. It’s the story of needing to ask for more and for different and how hard that can be. The last time I wrote about…

Soft is not the opposite of strong. It is the opposite of hard, of tough, of rigid, of rough. Soft is not the same as weak. It is flexible, it yields, it sways, it is smooth. There is strength in softness. A type of strength that allows for movement, for consideration and negotiation. A type…