The Inner Practice

Rediscover You: "An Exploration Into Your Inner-Child" – Lake Orion, MI A half-day Onsite Alumni gathering including teaching, experiential activities, and connection with other Alumni.

Thank you friend for our Divine appointment, for gracefully honoring pain, and guiding me to transform it into color.

Onsite.

A great therapist is a whole, integrated human––not just someone who is educated and trained, but someone who can put all that training in the backseat when needed and just show up with integrity, grace, and love, all with the intention of fostering connection. If a therapist can lead with those qualities and then follow with clinical training, they can be great. Tools and science are important, but ultimately, we are all just looking for connection.

Some of the best counselors and therapists I’ve ever seen are the ones who’ve personally pursued their own wellness enough to know that this work is almost a spiritual calling. Practice should be a blend of art, science, and spirituality.

Now forming YoCo groups (YogaConnect)! YoCo groups are sacred...its hard to find words to describe. Each session of 8 week series offers a bit of gentle yoga, a therapeutic exercise for personal growth, and an opportunity to share with others. Groups are small, private, and women only, and participants tend to deeply connect to both themselves and each other. If you are interested call or message me at 248-421-0963 or [email protected].

A great reminder from Melody Beattie in the Language if Letting Go...

Near the Top

I know you’re tired. I know you feel overwhelmed. You may feel as though this crisis, this problem, this hard time will last forever.
It won’t. You are almost through.
You don’t just think it has been hard; it has been hard. You have been tested, tried, and retested on what you have learned.
Your beliefs and your faith have been tried in fire. You have believed, then doubted, then worked at believing some more. You have had to have faith even when you could not see or imagine what you were asked to believe. Others around you may have tried to convince you not to believe in what you were hoping you could believe.
You have had opposition. You have not gotten to this place with total support and joy. You have had to work hard, in spite of what was happening around you. Sometimes, what motivated you was anger; sometimes fear.
Things went wrong—more problems occurred than you anticipated. There were obstacles, frustrations, and annoyances en route. You did not plan on this being the way it would evolve. Much of this has been a surprise; some of it has not been at all what you desired.
Yet, it has been good. Part of you, the deepest part that knows truth, has sensed this all along, even when your head told you that things were out of whack and crazy, that there was no plan or purpose, that God had forgotten you.
So much has happened, and each incident—the most painful, the most troubling, the most surprising—has a connection. You are beginning to see and sense that.
You never dreamt things would happen this way, did you? But they did. Now you are learning the secret—they were meant to happen this way, and this way is good, better than what you expected.
You didn’t believe it would take this long, either—did you? But it did. You have learned patience.
You never thought you could have it, but now you know you do.
You have been led. Many were the moments when you thought you were forgotten, when you were convinced you had been abandoned. Now you know you have been guided.
Now things are coming into place. You are almost at the end of this phase, this difficult portion of the journey. The lesson is almost complete. You know—the lesson you fought, resisted, and insisted you could not learn. Yes, that one. You have almost mastered it.
You have been changed from the inside out. You have been moved to a different level, a higher level, a better level.
You have been climbing a mountain. It has not been easy, but mountain climbing is never easy. Now, you are near the top. A moment longer, and the victory shall be yours.
Steady your shoulders. Breathe deeply. Move forward in confidence and peace. The time is coming to relish and enjoy all which you have fought for. That time is drawing near, finally.
I know you have thought before that the time was drawing near, only to learn that it wasn’t. But now, the reward is coming. You know that too. You can feel it.
Your struggle has not been in vain. For every struggle on this journey, there is a climax, a resolution.
Peace, joy, abundant blessings, and reward are yours here on earth. Enjoy.
There will be more mountains, but now you know how to climb them. And you have learned the secret of what is at the top.
Today, I will accept where I am and continue pushing forward. If I am in the midst of a learning experience, I will allow myself to continue on with the faith that the day of mastery and reward will come. Help me, God, understand that despite my best efforts to live in peaceful serenity, there are times of mountain climbing. Help me stop creating chaos and crisis, and help me meet the challenges that will move me upward and forward.

Self on the Shelf...should be Self OFF the shelf....take the metaphor and run with it!