About the Process

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain ~ C.G. Jung

My approach to decreasing mama-worry and increasing JOY works consistently because it concentrates on three really important elements:

• A Resilient Nervous System: In order to have a resilient nervous system you will first need to anchor yourself in a visceral sense of your ideals and intentions. These will naturally lead to a settling of your nervous system and slowly to the awareness of each of your worries. As you gently shift between these two poles with all your senses, intellect and spirit, you begin to allow integration of the two poles through the wisdom of the body and its archetypal healing motions. As this happens you gain more and more flexibility and presence and begin to gain tools to do this for yourself and your family and ultimately to expand outward and offer it to your community. You find permanent resolution, and it feels good.
• The Real Story: A side-efffect of recovering a resilient nervous system is the meaning that emerges along the way. First you identify and clarify your survival story, the one in which you struggle, are overwhelmed, confused or defeated and slowly as each rupture in your being resolves, you piece together a new and heroic personal mythology. You then pass your story on to your children and are able to help them know their own true and meaningful story. You are a part of recovering and passing down the ancestral wisdom of your people – even if your lineage has been broken.
• Inspiration and Perennial Knowledge: As you recover resilience and your own authentic story, you also begin to rest in inquiry rather than seek answers. You begin to recover and create real Ancestral Traditions that are important to you. You even have a sense of the universal ingredients of celebration, ritual and ceremony and turn to the Earth herself to remember the Sacred. Its all there for you. As you do this you begin to make sense of all the outside information and advice, and gain confidence in your own intuitions and knowing as a woman and mother.

What’s in my magic mama-medicine-bag?

Well, sometimes its a dash of sacred and healing foods, or just the right super-duper supplement or herbal remedy, sometimes its integrating an experience, or resolving a painful story, or maybe its helping you come up with just the right way to honor an important rite of passage. I might use a sensation tracking trick or other innovative body-mind technique. It might be a recipe, or a puppet play or even a song or poem, maybe even a well placed compassionate piece of information (I really do my very best never to give advice!!! ick….. you all get enough of that in the rest of your life) or a bit of philosophy…. and I am always adding shiny new talismans and potions to my bag……

searching the world over so you don’t have to……

But really these are all ways I help you find safety so that you can be free to trust yourself, glean the healing wisdom of your own being, and the inner knowing of how you need and want to meet each moment of your precious time as a mother!