Post Traumatic Growth & Meditation

 
 
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake

Meditation For Mental Health

Meditation can be an incredible compliment to other wellness practices. A meditative practice can help you break habitual patterns of thinking and behavior, reduce stress, increase relaxed states that support physical and emotional healing, boost creativity and concentration and help you get in touch with the wisest and kindest parts of yourself.

We know the health benefits, but it’s often hard to get started or to meet the challenges of maintaining a regular meditation practice, especially for folks struggling with trauma, chronic stress, chronic pain or brains that operate in divergent ways (like people who can’t visualize or feel calm when aware of their breath). I offers individualized meditation sessions that are more clinically focused than you could traditionally find in an open yoga class and help people deepen and create consistency in their daily practice without shame or guilt.

In these sessions, we design a program to work with you on a variety of challenging issues like anxiety, pain management, grief after a breakup or loss, insomnia, ambivalence about a major life decision and or breaking a pattern related to substance use that no longer serves you. Our goal is to make mindfulness an easy and accessible part of your daily life.

Contemplative Practice & Secular (non-religious) Spirituality


Spirituality is a part of human health and how we engage with what’s mysterious and unknown says a lot about the beliefs that drive us in our daily decision making. While there’s absolutely nothing that requires us to believe in a “God” in order to be spiritually healthy, it can really help to have a time in life set aside just to connect with what feels important to your life’s purpose.

Many clients find that practicing mindfulness in a secular (non-religious) way can help them feel more in tune with themselves and aware of their emotions and reactions to life. That awareness can guide you towards decisions that make life more fulfilling and meaningful.


Spirituality & Healing


You absolutely don’t have to be interested in spirituality to practice mindfulness or meditation, but sometimes people want to know and understand the foundations and histories associated with these practices that have recently been validated by clinical research.

For thousands of years, all over the world, people have been asking important questions like:

What does it mean to be human?
How do we heal from heartbreak?
Can we change and what helps us grow?
Why is this shit so hard?
Why do these themes and patterns keep re-occuring in my life?
What do my dreams mean?

Existential questions that open up after trauma or loss can be a call to adventure, inviting us to look more deeply at ourselves, at life and at each other.

If spirituality or secular ethics are meaningful to your healing, then they’re meaningful to me. Therapy is an awesome tool... and a lot of it is drawn from ancient wisdom. You deserve an integrated approach to healing. And if you don't want to hear about any of this stuff... that's okay too.

Therapy can be a mind, body & soul experience. Feeling spiritually supported can help people:

  • Cultivate hope and optimism, after a painful experience

  • Feel and practice worthiness and empathy in relationships

  • Find self compassion, forgiveness, and shame resilience.

  • Feel secure in their values and trust themselves to live in alignment

  • Feel tuned into, in harmony with or connected, nature, life, and the world

  • Find comfort and ultimately grow and thrive after trauma

You’re welcome to bring any of these things to therapy:

  • Astrology

  • Atheism

  • Eco Spirituality & Science

  • Meditation, Contemplative Practice, Post-Retreat Integration Issues

  • Psychedelic & Spiritual Experiences

  • Secular Ethics, Secular Humanism & Ethical Dilemmas

  • Ethical Altruism

  • Magic & Mysticism

  • Futurism & Humanism

  • Dreams

  • Christian Mysticism & Centering Prayer

  • Ancestral Healing

  • Yoga & Ayurveda

  • Philosophy & Existential Questions Or Threats

  • 12 Steps

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • Judaism & Jewish Mysticism

  • Near Death Experiences

  • And more.

My Experiences

One of the most intense and powerful trainings I’ve ever undergone as a human and a therapist was a Vipassana retreat where I spent 6 weeks in continuous meditation practice. While I don’t consider myself a Buddhist, 10 years in intensive training in Theravada Buddhist tradition impacts the way that I see life and practice therapy. For me, time in sessions is a kind of meditation where we get to practice curiosity, intentionality and compassion.

I feel incredibly lucky that being a therapist allows me the opportunity to always work towards showing up in a way that aligns with my values in relationships. I also think that listening to my own crazy mind without distractions has made me pretty unflappable. There’s not much you can tell me that I haven’t heard myself think.

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