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Grieving Awake: Our Collective Grief

8/19/2022

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Strangers Yelling on the Internet

It’s no secret that social media isn’t a pleasant place to be these days. It takes less than one minute of scrolling your feed to encounter arguments and insults being thrown. I used to be active on Instagram with a large following, but made the choice to step away from it a couple of years ago. It started to feel like being in a room with hundreds of people yelling over each other unintelligibly—not my idea of a good time!

Isn't Everybody Sensitive?

8/12/2022

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What is a “Highly Sensitive Person” (HSP)? Highly Sensitive Person is a term used to describe 15-20% of the population who are born with a unique sensory processing trait that allows them to notice more subtleties in their environment, resulting in both deeper processing (thinking & feeling) and a tendency toward becoming overwhelmed by stimuli more quickly. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of high sensitivity you can start here: The Highly Sensitive Person: A Form of Neurodivergence.

Isn't Everyone Like Me?

As an Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I used to assume that everyone noticed all the things that I noticed—like subtle social cues, for instance. I also assumed that everyone was a deep thinker, needing plenty of alone time in order to work through and understand the meaning underlying their experiences. But I now know that’s actually not the case!

Grieving Awake: The Wisdom of Surrender

8/5/2022

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Content Warning: child loss, death, cancer

Imitating Nonsensitivity: The Number One Pitfall of Highly Sensitive People

7/30/2022

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Isn't Everyone Sensitive?

It wasn’t until my 30’s that I realized the answer to the above question is “no.” No, not everyone is sensitive—at least not in the very specific context of Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), the scientific name for the more colloquial term Highly Sensitive Person or HSP.

Grieving Awake: The Myth of Closure

7/21/2022

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Our culture loves the idea of “closure” when it comes to grief. But would we ever really want closure after experiencing a deep loss, like the loss of someone we love?

Setting Boundaries Doesn't Make You an Asshole

7/15/2022

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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone say that the reason they’re afraid to set boundaries is because they’re afraid of being “mean,” I’d be rich. Our culture, on the one hand, upholds individualism to an extreme, while on the other hand, encourages and normalizes unhealthy codependent relational dynamics. Mixed messages much?

Grieving Awake: Flipping the Script on Grief

7/8/2022

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"Triggers" As Opportunities to Grieve

Last winter, one of our mama bunnies happened to give birth the night of a cold snap. Temperatures plummeted to well below freezing, and despite being housed in the barn, and having worked diligently to pack her nesting box full of hay, all of her eight babies died by morning.

Surviving Difficult Emotions: Be With It, Not In It

7/1/2022

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"Be With it, Not In it"

One of the primary reasons people come to therapy is because they aren’t sure how to cope with strong, intense, or painful emotions. And it makes perfect sense that so many people would struggle with this skill set, because culturally we aren’t taught how to relate to and understand our emotions.

Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part Two

6/24/2022

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This is the continuation of the original blog, Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

Turning Toward Grief

What does it look like to drop into our grief? What does it look like to allow ourselves to grieve in a fully embodied way?

Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

6/18/2022

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My Fear of Grief

I had no idea when I was preparing for the birth of my first child that the skills I was learning were the same skills I would draw on a mere 18 months later in order to midwife myself through my grief following her death.

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